John Michael CooperA BOND OF DISTINCTIONFrom Dr. Monroe Majors, through Margaret Bonds and Rev. Hamilton Boswell, to Kamala HarrisNov 3
John Michael CooperA GHOST NO MOREOn an Award-Winning Song by Margaret Bonds No Longer LostOct 21, 2022
John Michael CooperA RELIGIOUS REFLECTION BY MARGARET BONDSThat Margaret Bonds possessed a deep and abiding Christian faith is well known. So is the fact that she turned to her faith in times of…Oct 25Oct 25
John Michael CooperMARGARET BONDS’S “TROUBLED WATER” IN HER ARRANGEMENT FOR CELLO AND PIANOTroubled Water is arguably Margaret Bonds’s best-known instrumental composition. Published by itself by Sam Fox Publishing (New York) in…Jan 28, 2022Jan 28, 2022
John Michael CooperLANGSTON HUGHES AND MAX ROACH, MEET JOHNNY BUTLER AND TOM TEASLEYIT’S NOT LANGSTON HUGHES’S BEST-KNOWN POEM, not by a long shot. I first encountered it perhaps ten or twelve years ago in the context of…Mar 211Mar 211
John Michael CooperA BOND OF DISTINCTIONFrom Dr. Monroe Majors, through Margaret Bonds and Rev. Hamilton Boswell, to Kamala HarrisNov 3
John Michael CooperA GHOST NO MOREOn an Award-Winning Song by Margaret Bonds No Longer LostOct 21, 2022
John Michael CooperA RELIGIOUS REFLECTION BY MARGARET BONDSThat Margaret Bonds possessed a deep and abiding Christian faith is well known. So is the fact that she turned to her faith in times of…Oct 25
John Michael CooperMARGARET BONDS’S “TROUBLED WATER” IN HER ARRANGEMENT FOR CELLO AND PIANOTroubled Water is arguably Margaret Bonds’s best-known instrumental composition. Published by itself by Sam Fox Publishing (New York) in…Jan 28, 2022
John Michael CooperLANGSTON HUGHES AND MAX ROACH, MEET JOHNNY BUTLER AND TOM TEASLEYIT’S NOT LANGSTON HUGHES’S BEST-KNOWN POEM, not by a long shot. I first encountered it perhaps ten or twelve years ago in the context of…Mar 211
John Michael CooperBLACK REINSCRIPTION, WHITE REPRISAL: ELIZABETH KECKLEY AND MARGARET BONDS(Prefatory note: I began this first of the twelve Black History months of 2024–25 down with simultaneous COVID and flu — and the lost time…Feb 29
John Michael CooperMargaret Bonds and The Ballad of the Brown KingSome Historical Errata, Corrigenda, and AddendaNov 11, 2023
John Michael Cooper“SHE HAS A MUSICAL MISSION”:BRIGHT STAR: A CHRISTMAS SONG, BY MARGARET BONDS AND JANICE LOVOOSDec 4, 2020
