Play the anarchist piano!

[chu@climatejustice.social]

@atraidez @pluralistic

Ha. Of course. Kensington. Where else? Certainly not Rosedale.

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@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'.

[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/

[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.

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@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 ​

[jaicup@mindly.social]

@pluralistic anarchist pianos have spike bracelets on the legs.

[jaicup@mindly.social]

@pluralistic

[janschiefer@mastodon.social]

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

[jacktrek@mountains.social]

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

[tamtam@mastodon.de]

@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.

[brandoncarey@social.vivaldi.net]

@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.

[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".

[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

[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

[arod@social.coop]

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

[c0rb34u@hostux.social]

@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.

[c0rb34u@hostux.social]

@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

[arod@social.coop]

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

[angusm@mastodon.social]

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

#NoGodsNoMaestros

[aadmaa2@mathstodon.xyz]

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