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Eugenics at the Eastman School: Music Psychology and the Racialization of Musical Talent
Presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Rochester, NY. I’m happy to share the typescript of this talk: please get in touch via email! Abstract: In 1923 the psychologist of music Carl E. Seashore gave a speech to the International Congress of Eugenics in New York, in which he spoke…
Alexander W. Cowan 