March 2009
4 posts
How not to do music criticism →
Nègre - Wikipedia →
I’m struck by the image chosen here. While the explanation of the etymology of the term attempts to explain a the French origins of the term through its having been imported through either Spanish or Portuguese, they choose an image with an English-language context to illustrate—or exemplify—the stereotypical nature of the term.
It’s a bizarre term in French, and as...
between working on my department’s recent...
