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Pogo_Marimo posted...

Alright, well, for starters the video doesn't touch upon the Tritone in Medieval Europe because there's nothing racist about it, it's just inherently ridiculous and religiously driven drivel. Beyond that, though, you are still using exclusively a Westrrn perspective to analyse worldwide music tradition, which is precisely the kind of ignorant thing that many modern music theorists are trying to avoid. Want to know how many cultures in the world were afraid of Tritones? As far as we know, it was just one. And these Catholics made up about 20% of the world population, maybe, and thus 20% of the world's music tradition. Most cultures never had the same emphasis on harmonics and consonance in their music, and frankly most simply wouldn't give a damn about I - IV - V eithrr. Many using an entirely different formulation of what we would consider a "scale" or "mode". The broad tradition of music theory is far larger than what you've grown accustom to living in a Western country, which plays nearly entirely western traditions of music, which idolizes white, germanic musicians for a very specific language and concept of harmony designed to keet the needs of their own music tradition exclusovely. If you want to critically analysis western music, that is perfectly fine and all, but if you try to apply this mode of thinking to other traditions of music without the context required to understand it, or worse, if you try to make a valuation about other cultures using this narrow tradition of music, then you are actually encouraging white supremacist ways of reasoning.

I think you're combining theory with academia. Academia is racist if it values germanic music disproportionately to other music. Things like figured bass and chord nomenclature are not racist. I have a hunch that the other point might be sensible though, but I can't think of a reason...I can't think of a reason for why viewing eastern music through the lens of western music theory would dim someone's scope of understanding and appreciation for eastern music unless they begin listening with a preexisting biased view that eastern music is inferior to western music. @Pogo_Marimo