Reading Time: 4 minutes A Twitter meme reveals more about race and music than the composer’s origins. Social media trend is a new twist on a century-old question
Author: Alexander Carpenter
I am a musicologist, music critic, and rock musician. I studied voice and music history at Brock University, music criticism at McMaster University, and historical musicology from the University of Toronto, where I earned a PhD. At Augustana, I have served as Director of Music and as Chair of Fine Arts and Humanities; I am currently the Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies (University of Alberta, Edmonton).