James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship Joseph Horowitz, concert producer, cultural historian, and author of Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University Sidney Outlaw, baritone singer; Professor of Voice, Manhattan School of Music; Voice Faculty, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival Moderated by Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship In 1892, the master Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, teaching in New York City, prophesied that the melodies of African-American musical genres would inspire a “great and noble school” of American classical music. But the Black musical motherlode instead fostered popular genres known the world over; American composers mainly squandered the opportunity at hand. A modernist “sta
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The signs say it all
At a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee last week, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this about critical race theory: âIâll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is, but I do think itâs important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read.â
Fair enough, but that leads to this question: How does one become smarter about CRT? In much of the media, itâs being described as nothing more than an âacademic conceptâ or an âanalytic toolâ for understanding âwhite rageâ and âsystemic racism.â