Music criticism – Group 1

Below are three sets of music criticism for you to prepare for your Round table #3 (F Apr 5 / W Apr 10):

• Jazz: Anne Shaw Faulkner, “Does Jazz Put the ‘Sin’ in Syncopation?”, Ladies Home Journal (1921)
• Ethel Smyth, The Wreckers (opera, 1906): Holland, “An Opera Shivers Its Timbers”, The New York Times (2007); Thompson, “There’s a good reason there are no great female composers”, Spectator (2015); Frayer and Milnes, “A Womb in the Country”, blog (2015)
• Hip-hop: Jonathan D. Williams, “‘Tha Realness’: In Search of Hip-Hop Authenticity” (2007)

Jazz

Music:

Music criticism:

• Anne Shaw Faulkner, “Does Jazz Put the ‘Sin’ in Syncopation?”, Ladies Home Journal (1921): 1921 Does Jazz Put the ‘Sin’ in Syncopation_

Ethel Smyth

Music: Ethel Smyth, The Wreckers (Prologue) (1905)

Music criticism

Holland, “An Opera Shivers Its Timbers” (2007) Holland 2007 – The Wreckers – Ethel Smyth – Music – Review – The New York Times

Thompson, “There’s a good reason there are no great female composers” (2015) Thompson 2015 – No good female composers
(original is available here: https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/theres-a-good-reason-why-there-are-no-great-female-composers/)

Frayer and Milnes, “A Womb in the Country” (2015) Frayer and Milnes 2015 – A Womb in the Country_ Ethel Smyth
(original is available here: http://schleppynabuccos.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-womb-in-country-ethel-symths-wreckers.html)

Hip-hop