In this essay I address an area of cinematic musical development where the importance of women’s contributions has gone un(der) noticed: the compiled score, a film score created for early film primarily from pre-existing pieces, in both its written and recorded varieties. I examine written and recorded compiled scores created by Hazel Burnett, A…[Read more]

In this essay, I grapple with the ethics and practices of working on Black composers as a White scholar, and consider how to try to create an anti-racist practice of music scholarship.