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Chris Fox's avatar

"whether classical music is white supremacy."

Oh dear god I had not seen that one. OK, another spoke on the great wheel of anti-intellectualism, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

I've seen similar sentiments about progressive rock (Yes, ELP, Pulsar ...), the "whitest" rock, the least influence from hammer songs and Robert Johnson. Progressive rock is the only rock I still listen to, the blues influenced rock of my youth has little appeal now, and I wonder who decided that there is something missing in music without prominent black influence.

I'd die without classical music. Too call it "white supremacist" is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard all day, but it's only early afternoon.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"Oh dear god I had not seen that one. OK, another spoke on the great wheel of anti-intellectualism, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised."

Exactly. Brought to you by the same school of thought that banned the word "field" from USCs curriculum. Just virtue signallers desperately searching for new and more elaborate ways to signal their virtue.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Genau. Or, vernacularizing, another way to make pains in the ass of themselves.

"Pain in the asses" to the signallers. Proper grammar is so eurocentric, and ineruditephobic.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Harrington writes

"If even the hardest of hard sciences now advances a theory of reality that embrace radical uncertainty and the implication of the observer in what is observed"

Her grasp of physics is decades out of date. Google Wigner's Friend.

To analyze postmodernism for its flaws makes as much sense as analyzing Trump's strategy.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I'm one who enjoys and appreciates Americana, the blend of European melody and harmony with the Afro-Caribbean rhythms which in my opinion are more sophisticated. Culturally "white" European children learned rhythm via "Patty cake, Patty cake" rhythms which at least in the past, "black" children learned more polyrhythmic "Tom, Tom greedy gut" rhythms. I consider it to be a wonderful blend. Does that mean we should reject unblended music from various sources because of where it came from? What a horrible idea. When the record labels came up with the "race music" classification it was a curse.

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Chris Fox's avatar

You might check out Juno Reactor, the inventors of the genre psychedelic trance, in their first album "Transmissions," which I always listen to on a plane taking off. The opening track samples HAL 9000 saying "You're gonna have a wonderful trip" (echoes)

Heavy Afro-Cuban rhythms, very dark, darker with each release. Probably the dance-music distant relationship isn't your cuppa tea but they are the only techno-derived music I still listen to.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Well done, but not my thing.

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