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Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Public Musicology
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Christopherbowers176 (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Christopherbowers176 (talk) 00:47, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Adding the notable Ewell debate on the white racial frame (2020)
[edit]This entire article had practically no references to anything but white european 18th century classical music theory and its main white proponents in the field of music theory and music studies, writ large. There was a pivotal debate in the field during Black Lives Matter after Phillip Ewell published a bombshell article on the topic. This shouldn't be buried in a final section though I intend to add more there. It must be included, imho, in the opening paragraph because the debate was game-changing in the field. The impact continues in 2024. So four years later, it's imperative to include the debate in the intro.
Welcome other contributions to make this article more neutral and inclusive. sheridanford (talk) 23:05, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Organisation of the "History" section
[edit]The "History" section of the article first links with "Further information" to History of music, which has little to do with music theory. Follows a first subsection, "Antiquity", which similarly links with "Further information" to Ancient music, again with little to concern music theory. A first subsection of this first section, "Mesopotamia", at last begins with more useful information, with first a "See also" link to Music of Mesopotamia.
Each of these two first section and subsection also adds an [Edit] suggestion to provide additional information. One fails to see what could be added, however, as the "History" of theory in "Antiquity" really begins with "Mesopotamia". I wonder whether these [Edit] suggestions are automatically added by WP because the concerned sections already give an information in the form of "Further info Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 08:36, 13 October 2024 (UTC)