The Canon Symposium begins. Great discussions about canon formation and preservation as well as canon “busting”. Ethnomusicologists are in the vanguard here - they cut through the nonsense whereby academics and other elites create canons purely to preserve their own narrowly focussed power bases. It has nothing to do with musical quality or the widening of (useful) knowledge.Will have to leave further discussion until another time but am now determioned to run a conference titled “You’re Fired! - Creating and Busting Canons in 21st Century Music”.
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