Composing While Black

Composing While Black opens up unique new perspectives on contemporary Afro-diasporic composers who were or are active between 1960 and the present day, a period that has been largely ignored by research, concert programming, and journalistic representations, especially in Europe. This interdisciplinary collection of essays deals with opera, orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and electroacoustic music, as well as sound art, conceptual art, and digital intermedies, and presents Afro-diasporic new music as an intercultural, cross-generational space of innovation that offers new themes, stories, and identities.

"Composing While Black helps us to become aware of a major gap: why is contemporary music so white? The book provides comprehensive coverage of high-caliber Black composers, some of whom also live in Europe." CAROLA BAUCKHOLT Composer, Director of the Music Section, Academy of Arts Berlin

Bilingual edition English

Translated by Harald Kisiedu, Jessie Cox, & George E. Lewis

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