2021 has been a hard year, and 2022 will be worse than we can imagine! However, there are some promising trends happening in the New Music world. Many music organizations, composers, and ensembles are making shifts towards diversifying the field and overcoming the threat of COVID. …
We here at the Society for Music Diversity (notthatsmd) make a conscious effort to uplift all voices — which is why we’re introducing a new series of interviews with Indigenous artists! And we’re so excited to start this series with our dear friend and Didgeridoo player — Lüná!
Lüná is…
Miraculous! We at the Society for Music Diversity have just received reports that a Jew and Arab were seen in the same room. Despite the inherent urge to kill each other since the dawn of time in what is surely a complicated conflict, Levi (Jewish) and Muhammed (Arab) have so…
NewMusicBox has been a leading pioneer in helping marginalized composers overcome oppression by hand-picking four minorities from Ivy Leagues to receive a grant every couple of years. But has their advocacy gone too far? Could they, in their pursuit for equality, be too successful? It’s possible!
Rob Deemer ended sexism…
No one can deny the momentous occasion that occurred on January 20th, when Lady Gaga performed the Star-Spangled Banner for Bernie Sanders, Amanda Gorman, and others. …
Deceptive! Members of the Iranian Composers Club, an association of Iranian composers, reveal that they’re Iranian, and in fact, not Arab, in a press release to kick-off 2021. This announcement came as the association works to garner better recognition for its members in the new year. …
Watch out minorities! There’s a new diversity initiative on the rise, and it’s here to raise awareness for a set of composers who have been ignored for far too long. …
Embarrassing! Guggenheim-winning American composer Dorothy Yackel wrote a piece using bagpipes to represent Canada. The work has been criticized by activists for its occidentalist portrayal of northern cultures by making no distinction between Ireland, and Canada. Two completely different countries.
The piece in question is about a Canadian struggling to…
New York. November 27, 2020.
Progress! After months of being pressured by immigration activists, the International Contemporary Ensemble has finally changed its name so that its acronym no longer matches Immigration & Customs Enforcement, an agency infamous for causing pain and terror to our communities in the US.
This new…
San Diego, 2020
We live in a world that gives pretty people more money, power, and sex. It’s a sad phenomenon that ugly people face. But new developments reveal a call for monetary reparations to those burdened with less attractive features.
This is all thanks to the work of pretty…
