America’s Choral Response to Police Brutality: Critical Music in the Age of Black Lives Matter
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Michael L. Johnson
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2021
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“America’s Choral Response to Police Brutality: Critical Music in the Age of Black Lives Matter” This 113-page written Project examines three modern choral works that respond to America’s ongoing issue of police brutality against Black people. Through interviews with composers Courtney Bryan, Adolphus Hailstork, and Joel Thompson, who are all African American, as well as the conductors who premiered their work, the author sheds light on a relatively unexplored body of choral repertoire and makes a case for its purposeful creation, dissemination, and programming. The study includes compositional analyses of the works themselves, as well as conductor strategies for navigating the political sensitivities surrounding the topic of police brutality. The author also commissioned a new work by composer Brianna Ware on Elijah McClain.
Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
Johnson, Michael L. 2021. “America’s Choral Response to Police Brutality: Critical Music in the Age of Black Lives Matter.” DMA, Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://search.proquest.com/openview/aeb2112d5aa327fe602632a07e6fcc84/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.