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Unread 07-05-2019, 04:31 AM
Mark McDonnell Mark McDonnell is offline
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Default Julius Eastman controversy

It was Nemo’s poem ‘To His Landlord’, which I love, that introduced me to his friend, the composer Julius Eastman. I've found the man’s story and music fascinating, and equally uplifting and tragic, since first hearing about him. Googling him yesterday, I came across this article. Now, I know I’ve rattled on before about these kind of identity politics-inspired language controversies and the lengthy public apologies that inevitably follow (e.g. the recent poem in The Nation). And yes, though the article itself seems completely free of any 'culture war' hysteria, I suspect the website from which this comes has a fairly conservative, or anti-PC at least, agenda. And yet…and yet...this story is insane! And what happened to the woman who gave the talk, the musician Mary Jane Leach who edited the book about Eastman, Gay Guerilla: Julius Eastman and his music, is disturbing and totally shameful. Isn't it?


https://quillette.com/2019/06/27/pub...n-by-its-name/
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