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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: On classical separatism
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 14:39:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 14:39:43 1984
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This tripe about classical music == bad because its composers
have been almost entirely white males is truly specious logic.

Clearly this phenomenon is not restricted to music.  Indeed,
Western European society is and has been white, gentile, and
sexist.  But do not confuse the products with the culture that
produced them, lest you fall into the old Nazi routine about
"Jewish science."  I don't see any of you giving up on computers,
even though most (I suspect all) of the significant discoveries
in computer science and engineering have been made by white men.
This makes our society suspect, not the computers.

Someone mentioned that there were few Jewish classical composers.
True, although there have been, and continue to be, many Jewish
performers.  So what?  How many Jewish, or women, composers of
rock (or whatever is considered more politically correct) music
are there?

As for the newsgroup, as anyone can clearly see, a plethora of classical
articles has spewed forth.  I suspect that the single net.music
medium was considered too intimidating, as in "well, no one here is
really interested in this, are they".  I voted for a .classical
group not to unsubscribe to net.music, but to be able to order my
reading time more productively.  I am a pre-classical musician,
so I expect .classical to contain those articles that I need the most
time to digest.  I expected that contemporary music lovers would
look forward to this separation for the same reason.  But noooo!

So stop complaining--read music.classical.  You need not certify your
breeding.  Perhaps after hitting enough n's because you're just not
interested in the use of simultaneous cross-relations in early Jacobean
consort composition (why would anyone be?), you'll understand why it's
there.
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