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Author & space historian, specializing in the link between the founding of #NASA and #CivilRights. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCArhen1_Be-raSihk1IZySw

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Beethoven is A great composer, but not THE great composer, according to a music professor who believes it’s time to reframe Beethoven’s greatness “within the context of historic ideals of whiteness and patriarchy.”

“If Americans could acknowledge that our music and music education are deeply rooted in these two ideologies, then we could realize that Beethoven, surely a good composer, was simply one of many.”

https://theconversation.com/was-beethoven-truly-the-greatest-229660
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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon The conversation on this subject with regard to Shakespeare has been robust. The outgoing director of the Folger Shakespeare Library really thought it was an important conversation, and the incoming director (a woman of color) is even more devoted to it. It’s a valuable conversation, once you get past the screamers.

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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon Here are some of the podcasts I produced for them on various aspects of the subject.
https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/othello-blackface/

https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/elizabethan-race-blackness-dadabhoy/

https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/critical-race-theory-titus-andronicus/

https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/paterson-joseph-julius-caesar/

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