Working on a piece about Anti-Colonial Orchestras. We're so caught up in DEI initiatives as an appropriate corrective we fail to see how the subaltern have created their own responses. These orchestras were one and date back the the mid 1800s and continues today. https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1331026172067667968

DEI focuses on what colored bodies can be admitted to the WAM club. That's assimilative colonialism. Anti-Colonial Orchestras were just one manifestation of formerly colonized or recently independent regions and their peoples' responses to creating their own art music forms.

In many cases, these orchestras became a part of disaporic peoples' experience in new countries. For example, there were an estimated 100+ Tamburica Orchestras in the US from 1890-1920. Many of those orchestras still exist today, and newer groups have been formed since.

And Croatian composers have been composing works for these groups since their early formation in the late 1840s. Some of these composers have ONLY composed for these kinds of groups.

Similar Anti-Colonial Orchestras have been formed worldwide: Pan African Orchestra; Soviet/Communist Folk and National Instruments Orchestras; The Indonesian National Orchestra; Chinese Traditional Orchestras; etc.

All w/ their own rep, composers, instruments/instrumentation, & audiences that are never part of DEI discussions, nor included in Classical Music discussions. Part of the <<Logic of Exclusion of Colored Bodies>> that defines <<Perpetually Foreign Musics>> https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1317109026992390144

Many of the 56 different types of orchestras in this thread are Anti-Colonial Orchestras and I've barely scratched the surface. https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1327007676925169664