Posted on 09/16/2020 8:22:21 PM PDT by libh8er
Has the 19th-century German composer Ludwig van Beethoven become a modern symbol of "exclusion and elitism" for rich, white men?
In an article published by Vox on Tuesday that quoted New York Philharmonic clarinetist Anthony McGill, writers Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding argued that the work has been propped up by white, wealthy men, whose embrace of the musical composition stood as a symbol of "their superiority and importance."
Vox is not the only left-leaning outlet pushing to examine the racial makeup of classical music composers. In July, the New York Times published a lengthy article that accused the world of classical music of failing to address racism.
"With their major institutions founded on white European models and obstinately focused on the distant past, classical music and opera have been even slower than American society at large to confront racial inequity," read the New York Times's article.
"For others — women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color — Beethoven’s symphony is predominantly a reminder of classical music’s history of exclusion and elitism," Sloan and Harding wrote.
The writers suggested that because Beethoven was white and most other classical musicians are white, classical music has become a form of "exclusion, elitism, and gatekeeping" for black and brown people.
“As you perpetuate the idea that the giants of the music all look the same, it conveys to the other that there’s not a stake in that music for them,” classical music critic James Bennett II told Vox.
McGill struck a more measured tone, suggesting that an overemphasis on Beethoven's work keeps new musicians and ideas from being fully appreciated in real time.
McGill said, “If you pretend like there’s no other music out there, that Beethoven is the greatest music that ever will matter,” then new listeners will not feel welcome in the genre.
Most Nobel Prize winners in physics are white. Physics “has become a form of ‘exclusion, elitism, and gatekeeping’ for black and brown people.” These people (headpieces filled with straw) resent genius the preder Tsing Tse the music of decline.
Beethoven was among the greatest of the classic composers, often considered THE greatest.
Wow, Beethoven's symphonies 3,5,6,7 and 9. Then there are his piano concertos, so great (5th is my fave).
And, much more.
No iTunes purchasss for me going forward.
Considering that negros of the classical time were running around in Africa just a bit more advanced that the animals they hunted?
Where was their contribution to civilization?
Beethoven wrote his symphonies unable to hear a sound. He was probably our greatest musical genius.Is he from Salzburg or Germany?
Yeah this bumping popping shit you hear now on most TV commercials really kicks Beethovens Ass.
Not.
“Is he from Salzburg or Germany?”
Zimbabwe? That is where all the masters of the time came from.....
Beethoven was from Bonn, Germany. Mozart was from Salzburg, Austria.
This is what they don’t like. There is an order, a discipline behind much of the older classical music. Libs detest both.
https://www.intmath.com/blog/videos/music-math-genius-beethoven-9514
Que the ‘Mombasa Jazz Trio’.
Its first notes, DA DA DA DOM symbolized the Morse code letter V and were used in films and radio productions to rally the Allies during WW11 .
I guess they failed to prove old Ludwig Von was black.
In the 70s, someone wrote a silly satire of the political implications of Winnie-the-Pooh...
I wonder what Susan wrote about NWA’s F*** the Police. Or anything by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pelvic pounding indeed.
Would they settle for Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFbn8EbB4k
The human species is infected.
Who wants to be a white blood cell?
Was the piano invented in Asia, Africa or Mesopotamia? Ummm, nah. But of course that couldn’t be the explanation for European dominance of symphonic music for centuries.
Willie Mays was Black, and most other football and basketball players in the U.S. (a predominantly White country) are Black - Hence, professional sports in the U.S. have become a form of "exclusion, elitism, and gatekeeping" for White people and Asians.
Q.E.D. (using their twisted logic)
Regards,
I, for one, find it quite orgasmic.
Regards,
Indeed I was thinking something similar the other day.
Why are they so intent on destroying our white cultural heritage? Our European descent? The phrase ‘white supremacy,’ is contorted now to mean anything of European enlightenment history.
While we look at this from the narrow lens of the United States it is difficult to realize this BLM movement is happening worldwide. Just as we watch the virus response globally and see the same lockdowns, one can see similar actions in other nations regarding the idea of ‘white supremacy being acted upon.
Part and parcel to this attack on western civilization is the persons who are claiming to be victims of it...have no past before and no known history before it. All they have is their ancestors were stolen, sold, and enslaved. As hard as they try to embrace Africa as a culture point, they cannot. So that historic point on their culture scale is lost for eternity. It is lost as that unlike other cultures around the world familial lines of history have basically been wiped away. The only solid reference point is when they came in contact with Europeans or Arabs.
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