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...Radano greets the question of how it feels to be a white man studying "black music" with an expression that seems to say that he has been asked this question time and again...
However, Ronald M. Radano, the first-ever Quincy Jones visiting associate professor of African-American music, spends his time in Afro-American Studies 154z "Black Music and the American Racial Encounter," critiquing the idea that music is racially based...
...difference, as part of social imagination, is very real...," Radano says, explaining that while Americans don't have categories for "white music," they do for "black music...
...argument...isn't assimilationist at all...[but] music is a personal thing. Everyone feels they can make a commentary on music, because everyone has experience in it, as opposed to poetry or literature," Radano says, noting that the beauty of "black music" is that it is paradoxically the very same vehicle that enables racial transgression...
...sick of the theory jargon, at least you'll have the music to fall back on. Radano says he will incorporate music into his lectures, require listening to tapes and will even include some coverage of the current hip-hop scene. In what other class could you find a textbook with mention of Bobby McFerrin, Peabo Bryson, Boyz II Men and the Pointer Sisters...