Huneker

[huhn-i-ker]

noun

1. James (Gibbons) 1860–1921, U.S. music critic and writer.

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James Huneker, reviewing the first performance of the symphony, identified the ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' theme in the first movement, describing it as ‘negro or oriental, just as you choose’.

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It was around this time that the cultural critic James G. Huneker would write: “All Coney Island reminded me of a disturbed ant-heap, the human ants ferocious in their efforts.”

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The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

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“Why,” the critic James Huneker asked in 1915, “after the hot, narrow, noisy, dirty streets of the city, do these same people crowd into the narrower, hotter, noisier, dirtier, wooden alleys of Coney?”

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Here we see how winning Mr. Huneker's manner is and how insidious.

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