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’.”
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Plus they're paying the same per-page for copies as everyone else, but using 10 times the toner. A small but subtle victory.
@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.
@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.
@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/
@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".
@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
@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 @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.
@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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Thank you for clarifying. It seems to me 'anarchist' could just as well refer to 'lessons'. In less sloppy Germanic languages, this would've been one word with anarchist referring to 'piano', and two with it referring to 'lessons'.
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"Ok so here's the Anarchist piano."
"Sir this is clearly a tin can banjo."
"ANARCHIST PIANO!" *smoke bomb*
@pluralistic buddy that's the only kind I play!
@pluralistic my improv is pretty good, but my Kensington Market is a little rusty.
“Light the fire piano!”
🔘 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow • https://youtu.be/QUJkh5Gf4z8
@weldon @pluralistic Every day on Mastodon brings a new "I've found the right place" moment. Can't believe it took me so long to switch over. Now I'm getting Captain Beefheart in my timeline instead of algorithmic, unwanted shitty slop engagement posts and advertisements.
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The piano's been overthrowing capitalism (not me)
w/ apologies to Tom Waits
@pluralistic I thought they were teaching pianos to be anarchists
@pluralistic This was found in Philly, right?
@atraidez Toronto's Kensington Market
@pluralistic hell yeah Toronto
@pluralistic no gods. No time signatures
