Posted on 11/23/2020 5:54:48 AM PST by karpov
Inevitably, college music departments have succumbed to pressure to promote “social justice” and fight racism. It’s hard to see much injustice or racism in music, but that doesn’t matter to activists intent on showing that they’re in the vanguard of America’s transformation.
Consider, for example, the announcement back in September by the music department at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC that it was taking steps to combat “systemic racism.”
We learn that the music department, eager to participate in the college’s new anti-racism initiative, hired a consultant, Lorna Hernandez Jarvis. She met with minority students and alumnae so that they could engage in “safe and confidential” conversation about the department. That conversation revealed a number of problems, particularly the lack of diversity in the music curriculum, insensitivity toward international students, and mistaken assumptions by faculty members about minority students.
It’s hard to imagine that the racially restricted “conversation” didn’t involve a lot of what lawyers would call “leading the witness,” but let’s say that the participants really thought that those items were problems at Meredith.
Professor Jeanie Wozencraft-Ornellas, head of the department, subsequently met with the consultant. Afterward, she stated, “Having been aware of systemic racism in housing, banking, education, etc., I have to admit that I was not truly aware of how systemic racism was built into our curriculum and music education.”
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Meredith is a lib women’s college.
They will ban Classical music next. Soon,”music” will mostly be Rap.
As some of you know, I moved from Seattle to KY about 9 years ago. I was a very serious Seattleite. I bicycle commuted to my IT contracts in downtown, the U District, Bellevue and even Renton (boeing).
Well, I was fascinated to see there was a documentary on Amazon Prime called “The Glamour and the Squalor” about the DJ that started it all there at FM 107.7, “The End”. Marco Collins.
I remember that time. I even had a big black “The End” sticker on the back of my motorcycle helmet. He is credited with actually playing songs from groups like “Nirvana” and getting them started.
Why Am I bringing this up? Because after the first 20 minutes or so it was all about his homosexuality. I was done and turned it off. I don’t give a chit about where he puts his junk. I wanted a story about what he did in the music business. But they can’t seem to stay focused. Sure, the homosexuality WAS a very small part of the story, and yes, like most homosexuals, things in life didn’t go so well for him, in spite of his fame. But truth be told, his “fame” came from just being at the right place at the right time, nothing more.
Anyway, I just saw it last night. The first 20 minutes or so, anyway. I don’t like an agenda being crammed down my throat.
There is actually great classical music being composed even now, but most folks only go to a concert to hear the millionth rendition of Beethoven's 5th.
The new vehicle for hearing orchestral music is video games. (for the past century, film took up the baton as it were) What a weird world.
You must get rid of Beethoven and Bach. Study only rap.
The song “WAP” (I won’t say the whole title) is a song that will be studied for a 1000 years/s
Rap will never be music.
LOL. I wonder what the career opportunities are for someone majoring in “Rap”. From what I hear a lot of them get shot. ;-)
I like rap....
Rap’s my thing....
I like rap cause I can’t sing.....
The University of North Texas did something similar.
I recall the last time I went to the Kennedy Center Symphony Hall for New Year’s Eve a few years ago the “woke” celebration was rap - just what you’d expect an almost entirely older white audience in tuxedos who paid $200 for the evening would want hear. Liberals pollute and ruin everything.
Certainly 20th century music seems dominated by blacks. Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Rock, Rap, etc.
I’m not sure how much focus universities are putting on Britten, Fauré or Elgar at the moment. But, obviously, it’s far too much.
Where this goes:
Ban all “white” music.
Ban all “white” musical instruments.
Ban all “whites” from listening or playing music made by “BIPOCs”, since that would be cultural appropriation and colonization.
Note that I placed racial designations in quotations, since in wokism skin color implies the INDIVIDUAL’S ideology which must be followed.
Gasp, pretty soon we’ll all be hearing only musicless drivel like one hears at Kohl’s.
Wouldn't go there now.
Jazz is a real art form, requiring talent. I can’t imagine how I could say the same thing about Rap.
There are already courses about popular and non-western music at music schools. This is really all about destroying the classical western tradition that makes up the core of these schools and produces such brilliant performers, conductors, and composers.
Nah, this chick is going to save Western Civilizations music. I for one am enthralled....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_TLU_M7PE
Bongo drums are ok.
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