Posted on 11/19/2022 11:47:01 AM PST by nickcarraway
Burning crosses on the front lawn and liking Bach are one in the same to this scholar
A music theory professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York said his own father, who is black, was a white supremacist because he liked “Bach.”
Professor Philip Ewell made the claims in a profile piece in the Yale Daily News. The university recently gave him its Wilbur Cross Award for “making the whiteness of music theory a topic of conversation,” the student paper reported.
Ewell is so good at identifying “whiteness” and “white supremacy” that he even saw it in his own father, who “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism,” the paper reported.
The paper reported:
Tenure, Ewell drew out, is “the citizenship of the music academia world.” Tenured professors do not want their studies and positions potentially undermined by a reframing of the discipline. “They want to believe it’s the KKK and that’s it,” Ewell noted with heavy sincerity. He brought up his own Black father’s white supremacy as a counterargument; the hierarchies he imposed entailed white supremacy by definition, and Ewell bore witness to them firsthand.
Ewell called this phenomenon the “concentric circles of white supremacy” – the way it radiates from its crux into the hidden corners and crawl-spaces of everyday life, all the way from burnt crosses on lawns down into a Black man’s deification of Bach.
It’s not clear which Bach he is referring to, not that it would matter – it could be Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, or his son, Johann Christian Bach. Or one of the dozens of Bachs who were composers and performers.
His dad fell for the “white supremacy” trap, Ewell argued.
“White supremacy is the nation’s oldest pyramid scheme,” he told the paper. “Everyone’s waiting for their bite of the apple.”
For these insights on racism in music, he won an award from Yale, at one time a good university.
“Philip Ewell is one of the most significant music theorists of his generation,” Dean Lynn Cooley told the campus paper. “A disciplinary leader in the academic field, he has also become a public intellectual whose critiques have sparked conversations throughout the international community of performers and consumers of Western classical music.”
Idiot in D minor.
.....making flat-earthers look more and more sane with each passing day and week.
Just another in the long line of reasons to destroy tenure in any College that accepts any taxpayer money. And yes, I love Bach, All of them!
Wait, did his dad vote for Biden?
Why?
Who knows.
Hey I don’t like short Austrians with a funny mustache either.
5.56mm
but since Bach was German, wouldn’t that actually make his dad a white supremacist Nazi ?
What about PDQ Bach?
"You can never be sufficiently "woke", because today's tolerance is tomorrow's oppression."
We have a mental health crisis in this world.
I’m white and I really like Marvin Gaye and Bill Withers.
Am I a black Nationalist?…
“Bach - Cello Suite No.1 i-Prelude”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6yuR8efotI&t=19s
“J.S. Bach - Chorus “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” from Cantata BWV 140”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0FmmNrTck
If it’s racist to think that this is better than Snoop Dogg, then 95% of the world must be racist, and the rest must be deaf.
The professor is a hypocrite..Hates dad for loving Bach...DOES THE PROFESSOR LOVE WHITE MAN INVENTIONS LIKE COMPUTERS AND SUCH?????
I’m a Chopin’s Nocturnes guy first…
If Bach is white supremacy, then white supremacy is sublimely, transcendentally beautiful.
I remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis were discussing making a movie about classical composers and Arnold suggested “I’ll be Bach”
He raised a fool.
Even P.D.Q. Bach?
PDQ was always my favorite Bach.
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