Post #2477844
2023-09-26 20:29 UTC
El-Dabh's wikipedia page mentions Schaeffer, but Schaeffer's page doesn't mention El-Dabh.
Systemic eracism and Euro-supremacy is still impacting textbooks. In the struggle to get recognition for women's musical work, people wrote books that were just short canned bios and lists of works by women. This became a resource for people writing articles and textbooks.
Today, we can write books or we can just use existing resources to create a useful compendium.
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@celesteh@post.lurk.org 2023-09-26 22:24
We can get rid of racism by getting rid of efforts to mitigate the effects of racism.
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@cian@post.lurk.org 2023-09-27 13:27
@celesteh@post.lurk.org I certainly agree with this. But I'm not sure that a list that contains a number of contemporary and well known Japanese composers (for example) is super helpful if that's the purpose of it. A Japanese American in the 1920s? Sure. A Japanese citizen living in Japan today? Hardly. Persons of Color is a very broad term, that doesn't typically mean much outside the US and is poorly defined even in the US (e.g. Hispanic - which includes everyone from S. America including wealthy descendants of European settlers).