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  • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

    Play the anarchist piano!

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    @pluralistic
    Thank you for clarifying. It seems to me 'anarchist' could just as well refer to 'lessons'. In Germanic languages that are less sloppy than English, this would've been one word with anarchist referring to 'piano', and two with it referring to 'lessons'.

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    • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

      Play the anarchist piano!

      arod@social.coopA This user is from outside of this forum
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      @pluralistic fun fact: a self-proclaimed anarchist, Antonio Maggio, published the first 12-bar sheet music with "blues" in the title, in 1908. Fascinating story, detained without trial after McKinley was assassinated: https://www.bluescenter.com/2017/07/27/814/

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      • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

        Play the anarchist piano!

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        @pluralistic Anarchist music lessons are a great idea!

        I didn't realize until recently just how political the history of music education is. For much of that history it has been dominated by the theories of racist reactionaries.

        Adam Neely did a great introductory video on the white supremacist roots of music theory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

        I'd love to see more radical music teachers.

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        • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

          Play the anarchist piano!

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          @pluralistic I've jammed with Adam and can confirm he is the real deal, but certainly did not expect to see him popping up on fedi 😅​

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          • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

            Play the anarchist piano!

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            @pluralistic anarchist pianos have spike bracelets on the legs.

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              Play the anarchist piano!

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              @pluralistic

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                @pluralistic

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                @Jaicup @pluralistic The piano going more and more out of tune as it burns is part of the piece.

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                • janschiefer@mastodon.socialJ janschiefer@mastodon.social

                  @Jaicup @pluralistic The piano going more and more out of tune as it burns is part of the piece.

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                  @janschiefer @Jaicup @pluralistic like so? > https://pixelfed.social/p/jacktrek/959012947973756053

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                  • tarotbird@toot.catT tarotbird@toot.cat

                    @pluralistic Anarchist music lessons are a great idea!

                    I didn't realize until recently just how political the history of music education is. For much of that history it has been dominated by the theories of racist reactionaries.

                    Adam Neely did a great introductory video on the white supremacist roots of music theory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

                    I'd love to see more radical music teachers.

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                    @tarotbird @pluralistic "nobody could graduate from music academy who could not dance" omg, this is melting on my tongue. I want to be in that world.

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                    • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

                      Play the anarchist piano!

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                      @pluralistic
                      Plus they're paying the same per-page for copies as everyone else, but using 10 times the toner. A small but subtle victory.

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                      • arod@social.coopA arod@social.coop

                        @pluralistic fun fact: a self-proclaimed anarchist, Antonio Maggio, published the first 12-bar sheet music with "blues" in the title, in 1908. Fascinating story, detained without trial after McKinley was assassinated: https://www.bluescenter.com/2017/07/27/814/

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                        @arod @pluralistic «The genesis of “I Got the Blues” encapsulates the long story of complex interactions between European and African American musicians» that's a way too long euphemism "for white supremacy stole from black people all along".

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                        • c0rb34u@hostux.socialC c0rb34u@hostux.social

                          @arod @pluralistic «The genesis of “I Got the Blues” encapsulates the long story of complex interactions between European and African American musicians» that's a way too long euphemism "for white supremacy stole from black people all along".

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                          @c0rb34u @pluralistic I wouldn't say it's that simple. It also points towards how freedom-oriented people and practices influenced each other in urban space. Ben Barson's recent book _Brassroots Democracy_ is an amazing portrait of this era

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                          • arod@social.coopA arod@social.coop

                            @c0rb34u @pluralistic I wouldn't say it's that simple. It also points towards how freedom-oriented people and practices influenced each other in urban space. Ben Barson's recent book _Brassroots Democracy_ is an amazing portrait of this era

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                            @c0rb34u @pluralistic publishing industry, definitely racist though! The fact that he could have this "first" was of course overdetermined by skin color / racial caste

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                            • arod@social.coopA arod@social.coop

                              @c0rb34u @pluralistic publishing industry, definitely racist though! The fact that he could have this "first" was of course overdetermined by skin color / racial caste

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                              @c0rb34u @pluralistic interestingly, under immense pressure from society, Maggio later renounced both his jazz and anarchist past

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                              • arod@social.coopA arod@social.coop

                                @c0rb34u @pluralistic I wouldn't say it's that simple. It also points towards how freedom-oriented people and practices influenced each other in urban space. Ben Barson's recent book _Brassroots Democracy_ is an amazing portrait of this era

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                                @arod @pluralistic it definitely sounds that simple though 🤔 he told the story : white man heard a black man singing, asked for more information, got home, wrote down a caricatural version, signed and punished it and got all the money and credit for it. It doesn't make it better that he was supposedly an anarchist, on the contrary. It could eventually be of an intercultural nature if there existed a single example of a black person doing the same to a white person and not getting lynched for it.

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                                • arod@social.coopA arod@social.coop

                                  @c0rb34u @pluralistic interestingly, under immense pressure from society, Maggio later renounced both his jazz and anarchist past

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                                  @arod @pluralistic "pressure from society" as in "making money and enjoying capitalism" or as in "he had to find a 'real job' to survive"? Genuine question

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                                    @arod @pluralistic "pressure from society" as in "making money and enjoying capitalism" or as in "he had to find a 'real job' to survive"? Genuine question

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                                    @c0rb34u @pluralistic can't know for sure but my guess is the latter. State violence is no joke and he got a heavy dose

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                                    • pluralistic@mamot.frP pluralistic@mamot.fr

                                      Play the anarchist piano!

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                                      @pluralistic “I thought he said ‘Your piano needs tuning', but what he actually said was ‘Your piano needs Bakunin’.”

                                      #NoGodsNoMaestros

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                                      • angusm@mastodon.socialA angusm@mastodon.social

                                        @pluralistic “I thought he said ‘Your piano needs tuning', but what he actually said was ‘Your piano needs Bakunin’.”

                                        #NoGodsNoMaestros

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                                        @angusm @pluralistic Learn Clair de Lune but without the threat of violins

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                                        • tarotbird@toot.catT tarotbird@toot.cat

                                          @pluralistic Anarchist music lessons are a great idea!

                                          I didn't realize until recently just how political the history of music education is. For much of that history it has been dominated by the theories of racist reactionaries.

                                          Adam Neely did a great introductory video on the white supremacist roots of music theory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

                                          I'd love to see more radical music teachers.

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                                          @tarotbird @pluralistic I wouldn't exactly call him radical, but I love Farya Faraji's channel (and ethnomusicology is pretty rad). Really takes you out of the "vertical" harmonic paradigm of western european baroque-onward theory while explaining how it developed and more importantly what else is out there, and how Hollywood is in some ways just as bad for our perception of other cultures and their music. And there are so many other cool music theories out there!

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