How avant-garde performance redefines music’s possibilities
Music Department graduate student Elaine Fitz Gibbon was recently featured on the Harvard Griffin GSAS website for her research on experimental music theater composition and performance.
What the practitioners of [Musiktheater] began to argue is that the rituals of concert music are socially constructed. They . . . allow for certain people on the stage, and not for other kinds of people, based on categories of race, gender, country of origin, and accented speech, for instance.
Elaine Fitz Gibbon