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RedJackson posted...

Also you absolutely evaded what I wrote and then even went on to state it yourself: theory describes, the MUSIC is what contains the stylistic nature and thats pretty much all I was saying before you melted because theoretically a chorale or contra bass line doesnt mean anything to anyone (and it shouldnt despite what your school book decided to teach because thats not theory, thats theoretical concepts put together under very SPECIFIC conditions.. STYLISTIC conditions) that others decided to utilize in into music and say hey look at what Ive got here; its real music, its GREAT music this is a CLASSICAL piece because it is so

This topic is literally about theory, not the styles of music derived from it. Music Theory in the western context is the conceptualization of music derived from a European theoretical foundation. I am not talking about styles of music. I have never mentioned styles of music derived from the theory. This topic is about the western concept of "Music Theory", which composes the bulk of formal education on music in the West. This concept has historically been inherently white supremacist as a general principle in Musical Education--in it's formulation, in it's examples, in it's praise of nearly exclusively white musicians in the tradition, in its standards, ect. Unless you are taking a jazz theory class, which was frowned upon for several decades as a lesser study in America (The literal mecca of jazz music), you are receiving an education derived from and for white people, with exemplars in the field being nearly exclusively white people.

The music is not fucking racist. I am telling you what the critical race theory criticisms actually are and you are literally ignoring the actual criticisms to talk about things that aren't apart of the actual criticisms. I don't care what your opinions are on how Jazz is a separate

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