Re:Basic Music Theory
by coldtea on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:47PM
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>I think it's pretty blind to teach people that "this is music" rather than "this is how we've done music here and other people over there do it differently." We live in a global civilization now and there's no reason not to reap the benefits or to be exclusionary.
Maybe start american people actually listening to music outside of the US and UK? (And I'm not referring to latin americans listening to latin music).
They're some of the most chauvinistic peoples when it comes to consumption of music, movies, tv series, books, etc.
Then we can worry about some jazz player at Berklee or some high schooler at a school band learning western music theory as "this is music" vs learning about the gamelan or classical indian ragas...
>I've never seen this to be true in Indian music discussion. They know Western music too. I can only assume the same is true in China being that America and Europe export so much.
That's only because they have to play this too, as it has become popular in the 20th century.
Historically however there was no mention or need to mention western music theory though.
Maybe start american people actually listening to music outside of the US and UK? (And I'm not referring to latin americans listening to latin music).
They're some of the most chauvinistic peoples when it comes to consumption of music, movies, tv series, books, etc.
Then we can worry about some jazz player at Berklee or some high schooler at a school band learning western music theory as "this is music" vs learning about the gamelan or classical indian ragas...
>I've never seen this to be true in Indian music discussion. They know Western music too. I can only assume the same is true in China being that America and Europe export so much.
That's only because they have to play this too, as it has become popular in the 20th century.
Historically however there was no mention or need to mention western music theory though.