Marc Hannaford, "Fugitive Theory in Chicago (and Beyond): Muhal Richard Abrams’s Engagement with the Writings of Joseph Schillinger.”
This paper traces connections and resonances between Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist, composer, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and Russian composer, theorist, and polymath Joseph Schillinger. I examine Abrams’s engagement with Schillinger’s composition treatise, The Schillinger System of Musical Composition from historical and conceptual viewpoints, and critical theorize it as an instance of what I call “fugitive music theory.” This theorization suggests an under-examined genealogy of music theory involving black musicians and hence suggests a reappraisal of the discipline to include this work.
Marc Hannaford is a music graduate student at Columbia University.
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