“The ‘Canon’ Is Racist”: How A Collective Of Black Musicians Are Exposing Racism In The Classical Music Community
Classical music, like many industries across the nation, is finally reckoning with its long-standing racial inequity problem. With an overwhelmingly white, Eurocentric canon, few internal mechanisms for accountability and institutional hierarchies that quell dissent, the world of classical music has proved particularly impervious to heeding calls for racial justice. Entrenched in tradition, the industry has allowed its outdated systems to…
