Small pickings: Just one musician among 26 MacArthur genius grants
mainAmong the 26 creators and thinkers who will each receive $625,000 MacArthur Fellowships over the next five years, there is one musician.
Here’s the citation:
Mary Halvorson, 38, guitarist and composer
“Experimenting at the intersection of jazz and rock with a signature sound on her instrument and an aesthetic that evolves and surprises with each new album and configuration of bandmates.”
Has music really become so marginal to the American mind?
Full list of grant winners here.
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