No tiz becuz dey iz genetically inferior and zhud ztick to zimple rap zheeyat
Haha no tiz juz becuz dey juz aint into da Muzik itzelfā¦due to cultural izzuez, preference fo Rap etc. - not racizm. If dey wanted a career and wuz talented dey wud flourizh!
on da zurface diz iz a dizcouraging factor and makez dem dizmizz it
but how relevant iz it to ANY ov uz culturally?
I wud argue cultural relevance iz a huge barrier for everyone gettin into clazzical unlezz u happen upon a good teacher/cummah from a muzical family or juz zumhow haf it part ov yo immediate cultural circle
to me - a workin clazz white mofo from modern day rural Britain - it iz no mo āculturally relevantā den it iz to any random Black perzon out dere
Da firzt tym I heard da zurgin fury ov da Moonlight Zonata finale by Beethoven I wuz hooked - da 88 and clazzical muzik changed ma lyf
zum random German from da 1700z who wud othawyze be culturally irrelevant to me - hit me in da heart and made me feel a connection I haf neva felt to any otha kind ov art - even if itz zuppozedly mo āculturally relevantā to me
i dunno - not wishing to speak for black mofoz or indeed da comme himzelf, but da black mofoz have an alternative, vibrant and immediately-relevant culture so may not want or look for anything else. as white europeanz iām not so sure we have that alternative. where i am in da :wales: there is no culture apart from the eisteddfoddau which are trapped in the popular (not classical) traditions and language of 1890-1910.
The typical mofo selects their artistic frames of references from within their own ethnocentric and psychosexual cultural milieu (continued for a further 94 boring pages and published as a 21st c uni dissertation)
UZ pop/rap/r&b iz all exported to da UK and around da world and iz āculturally relevantā not bazed on race or demographic but uz becuz itz part ov popular culture
Itās also not 200 years old! Not entirely sure what point youāre making there.
However regarding jazz, I think itās still alive and relevant but in new forms (which is pozz where classical music failed - there are no new forms, or at least, not ones that have more than a handful of cultist adherents) - look at Cory Henry, Robert Glasper and the like. Itās also influenced the church music scene in the southern UZ (which is totally different to UK church music), which is where Glasper and Henry come from.
Yes, every instance where there arenāt as many blacks as whites in any field is an instance of systemic racism. When there are more blacks in a field, the reason is always merit!
how haz clazzical muzik achieved zuch ācultural relevanceā among azian americanz & chineze/korean/japaneze?
and cuntzequently - wut can we learn from diz to alzo open up āblack cultureā to zeein clazzical muzik az zumzheeyat dat iz relatable, relevant n not zo alien
Why do we have to do that for āblack cultureā? Recordings are available. Youtube videos are available. Classical music isnāt for everyone; white or black or asian or nonbinary. Iām not into Jazz. Does something need to be done about that?
ahahah da m*zik itzelf iz gud, n da 88 iz wikid, but alzo importantly becuz
azianz in weztern zociety or wiz intahnational azpirationz tend to gravitate toward gamez/artformz/careerz wiz da moz objective rulez. diz bazically how aznz deal wiz racizm. becuz dey noe in a whyt dominated zociety, u vil haff a much bettah chance of zuccezz at zheeyat wiz da moz clearly defined rulez
zo in da caze of art, āplayin notated m*zikā iz da moz rule-bazed type of art. rulez dicktatin zpeed, accuracy, rhythm, rep zize r predefined n u can guarantee a certain level of fairnezz below da elite level. fo 99% of non-elite playin, tiz difficult to call a gud zheeyat zheeyat or a zheeyat zheeyat gud.