Music Professor Calls His Black Dad Racist for Liking Bach

THE COLLEGE FIX ^ | Matt Lamb

[nickcarraway]

Burning crosses on the front lawn and liking Bach are one in the same to this scholar

A music theory professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York said his own father, who is black, was a white supremacist because he liked “Bach.”

Professor Philip Ewell made the claims in a profile piece in the Yale Daily News. The university recently gave him its Wilbur Cross Award for “making the whiteness of music theory a topic of conversation,” the student paper reported.

Ewell is so good at identifying “whiteness” and “white supremacy” that he even saw it in his own father, who “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism,” the paper reported.

The paper reported:

Tenure, Ewell drew out, is “the citizenship of the music academia world.” Tenured professors do not want their studies and positions potentially undermined by a reframing of the discipline. “They want to believe it’s the KKK and that’s it,” Ewell noted with heavy sincerity. He brought up his own Black father’s white supremacy as a counterargument; the hierarchies he imposed entailed white supremacy by definition, and Ewell bore witness to them firsthand.

Ewell called this phenomenon the “concentric circles of white supremacy” – the way it radiates from its crux into the hidden corners and crawl-spaces of everyday life, all the way from burnt crosses on lawns down into a Black man’s deification of Bach.

It’s not clear which Bach he is referring to, not that it would matter – it could be Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, or his son, Johann Christian Bach. Or one of the dozens of Bachs who were composers and performers.

His dad fell for the “white supremacy” trap, Ewell argued.

“White supremacy is the nation’s oldest pyramid scheme,” he told the paper. “Everyone’s waiting for their bite of the apple.”

For these insights on racism in music, he won an award from Yale, at one time a good university.

“Philip Ewell is one of the most significant music theorists of his generation,” Dean Lynn Cooley told the campus paper. “A disciplinary leader in the academic field, he has also become a public intellectual whose critiques have sparked conversations throughout the international community of performers and consumers of Western classical music.”

[.44 Special]

Don’t cha know computers were secretly invented in Wakanda and smuglled by evil whites in black face.
He is the same as Samantha Foss, can’t wait to sellout his father to prove his woke credentials. The party eats this up.

[RoosterRedux]

I’d say Professor Philip Ewell is a racist for driving a car and using electricity.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, the trans people have “Switched On Bach”. (W. Carlos)

[Eleutheria5]

I’d give him an F minor.

What if he doesn’t like Thelonious Monk. Different strokes for different folks, homey.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How about the white man’s invention of most musical and electronic instruments, and the chromatic scale? “African” music is almost exclusively played on European (or American) instruments today.

[SauronOfMordor]

Keep this up and more white people will decide they no longer care what black agitators are upset by.

[MotorCityBuck]

Baby’s got Bach! 🕺🏻

[goodnesswins]

And Dad says...”you are disowned”

[Hostage]

Lol!

[Levy78]

Eating their own makes me happy.

[KarlInOhio]

If you have no way of writing music, then you lose all history of it until someone (perhaps a white man) invents a way of recording the actual sound. Thus Africa only had the "now" of what is being played rather than a whole historical repertoire. It is hard to have a music history class without a written history. Even archaeology fails other than being able to dig up some old instruments. The music itself can't be recovered.

[Third Person]

Siciliana- The brilliance of JS Bach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6H31CMQSCk

[lee martell]

He’s calling himself a professor and he’s really that ignorant? Then he is an educated fool!

[Third Person]

... and LvT

[Savage Beast]

How far off the beam can you get!

[left that other site]

“COMPARED TO BACH, WE ALL SUCK.”....Pat Metheney

[left that other site]

Thank you for posting two of my all-time favorites.

There is also this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9bOaHvKUZE

Bach had Soul.

[j.havenfarm]

I really do wonder what it’s like to be such an insufferable ahole

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "“Philip Ewell is one of the most significant music theorists of his generation,” Dean Lynn Cooley told the campus paper. “A disciplinary leader in the academic field, he has also become a public intellectual whose critiques have sparked conversations throughout the international community of performers and consumers of Western classical music.”"

Sparking a conversation is now an accomplishment to these fools. Used to be, asking a question "sparked" a conversation.

I'll spark a conversation by calling this son of a Bach lover a complete and disloyal idiot.

But it becomes a tempest in a teapot, because rather recently some other musicologist asserted that Bach actually was part black, and another asserted that Anna Magdalena actually composed some of Bach's music. As the song lyric goes, "you gotta have a gimmick."

[Fiji Hill]

Ewell is so good at identifying “whiteness” and “white supremacy” that he even saw it in his own father, who “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism,” the paper reported.

Communism was started by a white guy, so yes siree, he is, indeed, a white supremacist.