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InYourWalls1 posted...

Going back to the comment of mine you quoted, I don't think this works as an analogy...but maybe the difference can clarify things (note: I'm not super familiar with theory nor have I been able to watch the Adam Neely vid yet, so correct me if I'm way off with things; I'm just reasoning it out from what I've read here)

As I understand it: given that music, unlike math, doesn't suppose necessary relations, theory would describe usage in a given set. So e.g. the people of Java have one valid understanding of musical relations, and then the Germans, say, have another valid theory. When one is held up or taught as "THE music theory" or to go further, maybe the theorists propogate the view that another is wrong and backwards, that's where racism can come into it

Yes, pretty much.

Music is, quite literally, language. Our brains engage the same parts of our brain when processing music as it does speech. So if you were to formalize a college curriculum called, "The Theory of Language", and then spend 95% of the time studying English, well, it's not exactly a study Language, it's a study of English. If you were to take it a step forward and make all the mandatory reading about white English authors, use white English authorsas Exemplars of Language, make people practice only English poems to learn how Language in general is to be consumed and critically analyzed, teach them how to recreate greats works of Language by studying English authors wrote, and emphasize all the nooks and crannies of how English dialects can differ to learn how Language can change with location, then you are enforcing a paradigm of white supremacy. If you ingrain that into the educational system of your entire country or Continent for 200 years, then you imbed the very ideas of implicit white supremacy into every citizen in your country who isn't equipped to critically analyze race relations.

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