I kid but also listen to jazz every day.
Join us at !jazz@lemmy.world if you dig.
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Hey you're fighting the good fight with your really great replies to the ignorant replies you're getting, more power to you.
I've seen some dumb takes on Lemmy but "science of music theory is western eurocentric colonialism" is a new low bar.
It is literally the core principle of modern ethnographic musicology. 50 years ago there were people claiming that eastern microtonality was a savage aberration.
You're continuing to conflate "music theory" with "western notation."
Music theory itself is far more expansive than that, and the fact that you're pretending that only western notation counts as music theory is extremely problematic, and also the source of the disconnect.
Music theory has a history, and you seem to be completely ignorant of it.
There are multiple histories of various musical systems which are encompassed by music theory.
If you want to exclude every non-western musical system from "the history of musical theory" and define "music theory" as exclusively pertaining to western-style notation, then that's a really shitty and eurocentric outlook, and that's on you.
It feels exactly like arguing with climate change deniers 🙄 they don't understand the science so they just pretend the science doesn't exist and it all comes down to subjective interpretation.
There is subjective interpretation in music, but that falls within the realm of art, which I even acknowledged.
They're conflating the art with the science, and using that to claim that there is no science underlying the art. It's absurd at its core.