Pierre Ruhe
pierreruhe.bsky.social
Pierre Ruhe
@pierreruhe.bsky.social
Early Music America’s publications director
Reposted by Pierre Ruhe
Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe.

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Early Black Musicians, Composers, and Music Scholars (505-1505 CE)
While musing about how exclusion of Blacks is built into music academia as a colonial driven knowledge system, I (as usual) posted those thoughts to a twitter thread It was obviously not my first. …
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December 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM
You can see the push-pull of today’s early music and historical performance attitudes right here. Our traditions are too glorious to lose!
We won’t lose traditions, we need to push forward!
EMA's Top 10 Most Popular of 2023 » Early Music America
As 2023 comes to a close, check out EMA’s 10 most popular features and reviews from the world of early music.
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December 18, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Pierre Ruhe
lol my boss just called me into her office and told me I've been spending too much time on bluesky. Hold on she's saying something else now
October 11, 2023 at 10:41 PM
I love the scripted casualness of a Bill Barclay interview: "This isn’t the quiet place, this is the no-deodorant place!
And that’s why unique people love early music. Because it has the smells, and it has the strangeness. It probably didn’t sound good for hundreds of years, but it does now..."
Music Before 1800's Bill Barclay and Historically Informed 'Experience' » Early Music America
A Q&A with Music Before 1800's new artistic director Bill Barclay: 'If people are going to take a risk of coming to a concert for the first time, they need something to hold on to'... it's 'sadly a bi...
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September 21, 2023 at 7:43 PM