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| − | [[ | + | [[File:KKK_Symphony_Orchestra_Alan_Abel.jpg|right|thumb|caption|Four dudes does not an orchestra make, sir.]] |
| + | "Professional media hoaxer" [https://abelraisescain.com/ Alan Abel] created this hoax in 1991 during former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's run for governor of Louisiana. | ||
Supposedly part of a Klan attempt to change its image, it was going to allow players from all racial and ethnic backgrounds (although all still wearing white hoods), and pay its players extremely well. | Supposedly part of a Klan attempt to change its image, it was going to allow players from all racial and ethnic backgrounds (although all still wearing white hoods), and pay its players extremely well. | ||
| − | Even a decade later, the scholarly book, ''[ | + | Even a decade later, the scholarly book, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=qgz0qzur95cC&lpg=PA113&ots=OuKZHmOEhK&dq=%22KKK%20Symphony%20Orchestra%22&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q&f=false Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture]'', from the University of Chicago Press, still thought it was real. |
| − | + | See also: [[The Topless String Quartet]] | |
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| − | + | ==External links== | |
| + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320171848/https://abelraisescain.com/alan_abel_media_pranks_hoaxes.htm#KKK_symphony_orchestra Abel's website on the hoax (on archive.org)] | ||
| + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20190704202828/http://abelraisescain.com/alan_abel_hoax_images/KKK-2.jpg New York Post article on the hoax (on archive.org)] | ||
| + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100917123249/http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1277 1992 article on Abel from the American Journalism Review (on archive.org)] | ||
[[Category:1991]] | [[Category:1991]] | ||
[[Category:Hoaxes]] | [[Category:Hoaxes]] | ||
[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] | ||
Revision as of 18:25, 1 June 2025
"Professional media hoaxer" Alan Abel created this hoax in 1991 during former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's run for governor of Louisiana.
Supposedly part of a Klan attempt to change its image, it was going to allow players from all racial and ethnic backgrounds (although all still wearing white hoods), and pay its players extremely well.
Even a decade later, the scholarly book, Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture, from the University of Chicago Press, still thought it was real.
See also: The Topless String Quartet
