Post #2477848

2023-10-04 11:54 UTC

Welp. The conversation about whether to delete this list had several examples of white supremacist culture. Aside from the overt racism present in the discussion, the power structures that perpetuate white supremacy were very evident. Indeed, the major driving factor was a false sense of urgency. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/urgency.html And what was so urgent? The "one right way" problem. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/one-right-way.html Which was driven by binary thinking. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/eitheror--the-binary.html The list was obviously useful and was causing zero problems, but suddenly I had to provide an academic article explaining exactly why it was useful. The obvious utility to teachers - and that it was actively being used was not enough. This 'standard' is not evenly applied. And indeed, is another part of white supremacist culture. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/worship-of-written-word.html

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@celesteh@post.lurk.org 2023-10-04 12:00

The only "positive" to come out of this is that it shows the paucity of scholarship in electroacoustic music and race. One thing that sticks out for me, in the scramble of paper reviews that I suddenly, urgently had to do was that the way in which we talk about the entire genre is already problematic. We tend to define ourselves by our difference. What we do is valuable because it is *unlike* other people. The entire musical genre is riddled with individualism. https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/individualism.html The causes of this are probably many, including American ideology, the close association with university publishing/grants culture, and a deliberate whitewashing and white supremacist power grab over the genre. This is also evident in historical decisions about who got in the canon and in academic hirings. Babbit was briefly fired from his post for being Jewish, for example. These forces are present in all western art music to various extents.

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@draco@sonomu.club 2023-10-04 12:15

@celesteh@post.lurk.org I should bookmark this whole website, it looks like a treasure trove.

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