Post #2477842
2023-09-26 18:52 UTC
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@celesteh@post.lurk.org 2023-09-26 20:00
The deletionist's point, ' "Of color" is a very American-centric phrase that essentially categorizes people as "white" or "not", smushing everyone in the "not" category into one homogenous mass with no respect to actual cultural differences that may be relevant.' is at least partly valid. The entire genre of music has a history of serious whitewash, however. Schaeffer is is often credited as an inventor, but his Railway Study came four years after Halim El-Dabh's The Expression of Zaar. Electroacoustic music was invented in Africa. And not secretly. El-Dabh moved to the US and was a central figure in a bunch of scenes you've heard of, even if you've never heard of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halim_El-Dabh So yeah, it's smooshing him in - because he was smooshed out by racism.
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@jrp@hub.kliklak.net 2023-09-26 19:09
@@celesteh@post.lurk.org Honestly, i don't even know, if my accoutn is still active or even "allowed" to operate. I gave up on Wikipedia's democratic features, and subsequently don't consider it as a great source of (contributable) knowledge anymore.