Looking at Race Through Classical Music in the US: Recent Episodes

Analise Granados

In this podcast, we will look at the presence of classical music and how it parallels the color line and has for centuries. Then, we will discuss what we can do about this - what does equal opportunity in the orchestra mean?

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Additional Resources:

Nagy A Youssef Article on transgenerational epigenetic methylation of trauma:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35370497/

Personal Notes from “The Handbook of PTSD”:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w5wexByfeRq8d8RDSC16UWPAkQFEwTCUJXrOeDfXc08/edit?usp=sharing

The genetics and epigenetics of PTSD: overview, recent advances, and future directions

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X16301178?via%3Dihub

PTSD and racial trauma:

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/publications/rq_docs/V32N1.pdf

The brain’s memory hub may explain why some people get PTSD and others don’t:

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/ptsd-memory

Why some soldiers develop PTSD and others don’t:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/why-some-soldiers-develop-ptsd-while-others-dont.html

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This podcast will dive deep into Fanny Hensel's setting of "Die Mainacht" -- the text, the music, and the relation of the two.

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In this podcast we will discuss how food allergies work, why they are prevalent in genetics, and new research about the future of food allergies. 

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"Afro-American Symphony" by William Grant Still 

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In this episode, we will discuss race, the color line, unequal opportunity, and topics of the sort through the lens of classical music, and how it so deeply plays into the color line and racism.