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RedJackson posted...

This so vague the fact that you can't actually go deeper than this tells me something - in any event, the video itself assumes that you're going to have the means to pay for a white mans college education, in a white dominated country with white institutionalized racism, using white acredited textbooks I will never use... all while mentioning within the video itself that there's other systems of music that exist despite that

You're literally watching a video from a person who considered latin back beats as 'jazz' and that's his problem for not being Latino like me - of course I sat through music class learning music from a white dude who called it 'world' music and have it bug me

Blame popular musicians and the rappers you listen to, they literally have no pre-conceived notion of the fact why something sounds great other than the counsel of what the video is saying: standardized tropes from a white man

But at this point, musicians from the 1900's onwards were on their own to consider their own stylistic tropes thus the invention of Jazz itself. Miles Davis knew this and created an entire foundation separate from Classical culture by capitalizing on the explicit use of modes (and there was some of this before mind you, this was because some people flat out didn't have the means to read sheet and learned it on their own)

You... you utter fucking dunce. You've literally picked up none of the actual context of the video. You supposedly watched the whole thing and managed to comprehend none of it.

"Music Theory" in the Western Context, as shown through nearly every educational program in America and Europe for the last 100 years aside from only the most progressive of programs, and through much of the educational literature designed to explain "music theory", is not actually "General Music Theory". It is the Western Musical Theory of Harmony developed in Europe in the 1700s and 1800s. "Music Theory" as defined by Western Educational systems is inherently racist in it's assumption that "General Music Theory" can be ascribed to this specific and focused type of theory, which is patently wrong and Euro-centric. This is literally what the whole debate is about. The fact that you're trying to argue absolutely absurd things like "The construction of music can't be racist"--Yeah, no shit genius--Shows your utter lack of comprehension or your utter contempt for anything that might challenge your shallow view of history and society.

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