Black Composers: Finding Legitimacy After George Floyd's Murder

24 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube video titled "Black Composers: Finding Legitimacy After George Floyd's Murder" (posted June 24, 2025). The excerpt is a short multi-speaker segment in English: one speaker reflects on not recognizing women or Black women as composers and how George Floyd's murder prompted organizations to re-examine representation; a second speaker gives a promotional announcement for the season 5 finale featuring Dr. Maria Thompson Corley and points listeners to the YouTube episode or podcast; a third speaker urges viewers to follow and subscribe to The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. The overall context is a podcast/video episode discussing representation of Black composers and promoting the show's season finale.

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And I don't know if it was because I didn't know of women or Black women who were composers, and so just the legitimacy of what I was doing was something that was outside of, you know, what— it didn't really— it doesn't make sense looking back at it now that I didn't think I was composing. Because I hate to say it, George Floyd's murder caused a lot of organizations to say, hmm, maybe we should take another look at how we're representing Black composers. And I think obviously everybody, each group that is not as represented as they should be, you know, deserves that sort of attention. But that was the focus right then.
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