Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?
- Professor of Music Theory, Hunter College
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who were no less great.
The predominantly white European field of music education in the US is changing radically these days as schools confront anti-Black histories.
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