My 2016 column on Microaggressions.
https://hadleyblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/t-here-are-some-stories-appearing-on.html
In 2016, a University of Oklahoma human relations theory class stated a white man cannot be singing songs from pop diva Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty or he would be causing "microaggressions."
What type of indoctrination is happening in our schools now? This reminds of Sam Smith, who covered Whitney Houston's "How Would I Know?" (he has since been known for singing the theme to a Bond film, and that awful Unholy song with Mr. Petras at the 2003 Grammys). We'd charge microaggressions for Mr. Smith's actions.
And don't get me started on the numerous numbers of "wailing women and moaning men" who sing certain Top 40 songs on "religious radio" via the karaoke machine when men sing women's and women sing men's hits under this logic. Can you imagine a big 90's femme hit I loved for many years being sung by a mixed quartet (which could fit)?
The "pre-LaRoche Era" me when it came to church music would be guilty (loved to sing female vocalists' hits with friends), but after taking voice, aka the LaRoche and Beyond Era, as a tenor I understand I am not designed to sing soprano solos!
It reminds me of a 2014 service in York, England, where a man sang as the lead singer of their Life Enhancement Centre's rock band (it's no church, we know what these Warrenist types and Perry's House of Heresy do) a song from a 90's femme supergroup I remember so many times. He was lead singer for the girlie song.
So now if you're not X race, you're not allowed to sing solos.
On another part, I was part of a summer chorus in college and I had a hard time learning "black gospel" music techniques that contrasted with the Baroque voice I learned.
During a time from 2003-04 in church when I was in choir, the leader had us sing a black gospel/R&B influenced version of "Pass Me Not" with the karaoke machine. I was confused and just could not understand what they were doing. I could not sing karaoke pop. Months prior, the adult choir was to sing with karaoke the late 1990's femme pop hit "When Love Came Down" provided by the SBC's Lifeway music, and we were replaced by kids doing puppets and dance. They wanted a plan where dance, not singing, was the way to be church music. In October, they announced an adult group dance to pop hits will be started because none of the previous generation learned to sing and wanted to do what they did in their youth. Now the choir that's left sings hits from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's books - a denomination that denies the inerrancy of Scripture. I left the choir after the "Pass Me Not" Incident because the direction they were going was the opposite of sitting in Leah Hungerford's studio that year learning to sing was doing.
Eventually, I was run out of that church over a theological issue when an extended family member was thrown out of a youth pastor search committee over rejection of John MacArthur and Albert Mohler whilst accepting Steven Furtick, Joel Houston, and Bill Johnson. In Sunday's Advent service I viewed online for research, no Advent hymns were sung, they sang exclusively hits, with Furtick being the signature.
Thankful I attend a sound Bible believing church 38 miles from home where Thomas Russell's organ plays and youth are taught to sing while the Bible is taught -- our Governor McMaster and my Representative Joe Wilson attend and I gave a friend a Derek Thomas book.
This is de facto racial discrimination.
In plain Ebonics English, “Da’s raciss.”
Check yo zip code.
I fully respect concerns about authenticity, but I also believe that whoever gives the strongest performance should be given the chance,” he wrote. “Art, music, and culture are meant to be shared and celebrated, not gatekept.”
He’s right, but that train left the station a long time ago in most cases.
Calling on President Trump to remove federal funding due to racial discrimination practices. That ought to get their attention.
By that logic, blacks should not be permitted to perform classical music or dance the ballet.
We sang/played on a friend's composition recital. I got to play alto flute. That was a cool gig.
Mark Phillips, a three-year member and the a cappella group’s beatboxer, contacted a board member to inquire about how the exclusion of white students aligned with Kent State’s anti-discrimination policies.
The exclusion of white students aligns with Kent State's pro-discrimination policies.
What would happen if a black musician were excluded from a white barbershop quartet or a country-western band on the grounds of cultural appropriation?
What are the songs Whites are forbidden to sing?
I’m too lazy to look up better sources but the AI summary seems to capture it:
A cappella refers to music performed by a singer or a group without instrumental accompaniment, using only the human voice to create melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
The term originates from Italian, meaning “in the style of the chapel,” and was initially used to describe sacred choral music performed in a chapel or small worship space without instruments.
It has since evolved to encompass both religious and secular music.
The style began to develop in Europe around the 9th century with the practice of organum and reached its peak between the 14th and 16th centuries, particularly through composers of the Franco-Flemish school such as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Josquin des Prez.
The music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, especially his works for the Sistine Chapel, is considered a hallmark of a cappella polyphony in the late 16th century.
Although early a cappella polyphonies were sometimes doubled by instruments like organs or wind instruments, the term now generally denotes unaccompanied vocal performance.
A cappella music includes various forms such as Gregorian chanting, madrigals, barbershop music, collegiate a cappella, and puirt à beul.
It has a long tradition in religious contexts, including the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Lutheran, and Eastern Catholic Churches, where liturgical music is exclusively sung without instruments.
In some Protestant traditions, such as certain Holiness Churches, a cappella worship was maintained until the mid-20th century.
Is it any white guys singing ending flourishes like this Keye and Peele sketch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtalOOS-eM
