Re: ATL Gauntlet

--- In metatuning@y..., "jacky_ligon" <jacky_ligon@y...> wrote:
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> Sometimes I wonder how people from other cultures would be treated
if
> they were to come to the ATL to have to run through the Western
> Academic Gauntlet of all that is assumed to be correct in music.
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> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from Bali being told
by
> someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or no ear for it?
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> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from Africa being
told
> by someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or no ear for
> it?
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> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from the Middle East
> being told by someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or
> no ear for it?
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> etc... etc...
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> Sometimes I gag on the bloated arrogance I see on the ATL. It
always
> seems to emanate from the same ones. I think one might find behind
> allot of this hubris some really sickening kinds of cultural
bigotry.
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> Certainly what we see shoved in our face, is too often a very ultra-
> conservative "Western" view of music.
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> Is the West the Center of the Universe and the fountain of all
truth?
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> I tend to think musical truths are much more broad than that.

i wish you had posted this to the tuning list, as i feel it expresses
some very important truths. however, you may note that the person you
are responding to has espoused *indian* music, even above western
music, as the paragon of good intonation . . .

Hello Jacky!
I would tend to think that westerners have the worse ears, having
accepted such high tolerances. i am always amazed at what people do not hear
that seem significant at least in no "size" but outright "emotional"
content.

jacky_ligon wrote:

> Sometimes I wonder how people from other cultures would be treated if
> they were to come to the ATL to have to run through the Western
> Academic Gauntlet of all that is assumed to be correct in music.
>
> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from Bali being told by
> someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or no ear for it?
>
> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from Africa being told
> by someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or no ear for
> it?
>
> What would it be like on the ATL for a person from the Middle East
> being told by someone on the ATL that they have "bad intonation" or
> no ear for it?
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

Paul!
Well north indian music acknowledges the difference between the comma as
musically significant. Something the European has fused together.

paulerlich wrote:

> i wish you had posted this to the tuning list, as i feel it expresses
> some very important truths. however, you may note that the person you
> are responding to has espoused *indian* music, even above western
> music, as the paragon of good intonation . . .

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm