Young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(Oxford American)
(Oxford American)
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On March 7, 2015 AfriClassical posted
Oxford
American Article on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Advocacy of Black
American Music: "That was nice, but also a little patronizing"
John Jeremiah Sullivan and Joel Finsel are the authors of The Oxford American's article Though The Heavens Fall, Part 2. They comment:
John Jeremiah Sullivan and Joel Finsel are the authors of The Oxford American's article Though The Heavens Fall, Part 2. They comment:
Thanks for this mention of "Though the Heavens Fall," AfriClassical
(differences of opinion included). From our point of view, the interest
lay less in the question of whether or not SCT was actually being
patronizing--we'd need to have been there when he made the remarks,
after all, to know for sure--than in the fact that the African-American
critic Sylvester Russell believed that SCT was being patronizing. That's
what we wanted to bring to light, that this attitude had developed
among early black music journalists, who'd grown tired of hearing that
their own music (African American folk and popular music ca. 1890–1910)
could be used as the material for 'serious music' but couldn't be
serious music. And it's true that such a hierarchy of genres or forms
was implied in many of SCT's remarks. All good wishes, John Sullivan and
Joel Finsel