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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoI have been informed that the book the Wiener article is in is expensive, so here are some key quotes:
“By employing the language of race, Schenker adhered to the conventions of his day. Yet this did not reflect a belief in the strict doctrines of biological racism, as employed by racial theorists in Europe and America during the first third of t…[Read more]
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Scott Fruehwald posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoNew article on Heinrich Schenker’s Jewishness. The Georg Olms Verlag has just published Barry Wiener’s article “Race, Nation, and the Jewish Identity” in New Horizons in Schenkerian Research, edited by Allen Cadwallader, Karen M. Bottge, & Oliver Schwab-Felisch (2022). This article places Schenker’s thought in the context of a Jew in Austria…[Read more]
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Scott Fruehwald deposited Why Philip Ewell’s “Music Theory and the White Racial Frame” is Fundamentally Wrong: Ignoring Inconvenient Facts on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Professor Ewell’s argument concerning a white racial frame in American music theory is fundamentally flawed because Ewell’s argument is based on the notion that Schenker’s worldview was based on biological racism, not culture, and Ewell is incorrect that Schenker’s worldview was based on biological race. In addition, Ewell hid this fact by incompl…[Read more]
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