February 2012
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Approaches #3
Hard Thinking #1 #2
Approaches #1 #2
Approach to non-eurocentric music #3: The Fan/The Mod/The MP3 Blogger
How it analyses the power imbalance in music: An up-to-date version of the vinyl scrambler, and probably the closest thing to a raison d’etre this tumblog has had so far in the two months of its existence. The power imbalance is an imbalance of access to a eurocentric public: worthy...
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Approaches #2
Hard Thinking #1 #2
Approaches #1
Approach to non-eurocentric music #2: The Scramble for Vinyl (pretty much)
How it analyses the power imbalance in music: Even more explicitly (or possibly just more honestly) than “World Music”, it’s all about going back. A historical injustice has been committed, the thinking goes, in that so much awesome music is hidden because eurocentric...
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Approaches #1
Hard Thinking #1 #2
Approach to non-eurocentric music #1: “World Music” – Folk Music – Old School Ethnomusicology
How it analyses the power imbalance in music: In most parts of the world there’s a significant dominance of genres of music that derive from big mainstream American hits, brought on by capitalism and cultural imperialism. This manifestation of eurocentric power has...
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Hard Thinking #2
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If I get right down to it, my aim for this blog (beyond the merely aesthetical) an be summed up as:
To do my thing to redress the marginalisation that faces music from the periphery by bringing increased attention to it.
Except that this has been the aim of every single person or movement dealing with third-world music ever. Ask the most hated 19th-century orientalists and they would...
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Hard thinking
I’ve run this tumblog for less than two months. But as I’m helping a friend set up her first blogging excursion, I keep thinking about what Ripley wrote, and how ill-advised it all might be. So rather than plow on in the way I have so far, I’m going to spend the next few posts considering and discussing what this blog is doing and might be doing. If at the end of that I have to...
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A very useful reminder
The discussions are not new at all.
What a complete mindfart on my part.
I was waiting to be called out on something, because inherently much is wrong about the premise of this tumblr, and here it is. Beyond language, viewing music as a resource is inherently problematic in itself, and essentially present in all supposedly appreciative iterations of white responses to othered music. The very...
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