New Book - Beethoven in America

[Michael]

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/...chael-broyles/

[Peter]

Haven't we had this in another thread? In any case having read the review it's not one that's on my Xmas shopping list - a lot of tedious waffle by the looks of it!

[Megan]

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/...chael-broyles/

A music professor who describes himself as a “Beethoven geek of the highest degree” will receive a national award this spring.

Broyles’ most interesting chapters relates the theories and cultural beliefs that Beethoven was black. Broyles goes to great length to demonstrate that “Beethoven seems to have been an important symbol to the black community”



http://pioneer2010.occc.edu/index.ph...national-award

[Peter]

A music professor who describes himself as a “Beethoven geek of the highest degree” will receive a national award this spring.

Broyles’ most interesting chapters relates the theories and cultural beliefs that Beethoven was black. Broyles goes to great length to demonstrate that “Beethoven seems to have been an important symbol to the black community”



http://pioneer2010.occc.edu/index.ph...national-award

Yes it's not the first time that suggestion has come up on this forum, clearly the author has an agenda and that immediately turns me off.

[Michael]

Reminds me of the Professor who claimed that all Shakespeare's plays were written by Queen Elizabeth. When a sexist colleague objected, saying those great plays couldn't have been written by a mere woman, the Professor calmly replied "If you had read the second part of my book you would have found out that it is also my contention that Queen Elizabeth was a man."

[Joy]

Like the shades though

[Roehre]

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/...chael-broyles/

I am 200 per cent convinced Beethoven is an alien

[Johan]

Angelic beings of the Creation

Come now, we all on this site know that Beethoven was an angel!