Music Theory and White Supremacy

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the canonical video on how music theory is really the theory of one Western tradition, with the raga example.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Adam Neely

Topic

music theory and culture

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > pop music lacks musicality, most of what they listed were to do with sonic tricks that are not really tied to musicality or musicianship This is a paradox, though. You’re saying that one of the most popular types of music “lacks musicality”. The only …

• There's a very good video on the way too narrow view many people in the west have of music. [VIDEO] I know the title will set people off in a place like this, but it's not a 2014 Tumblr-level "kill white people" style analysis. Totally …

• I grew up in a family of classical musicians, got a degree in music, and was briefly a professional classical musician myself. So my advice may be very out of touch with the experience of someone learning for the first time, but my experiences learning …