{"id":349839,"date":"2018-02-25T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/magazine-says-classical-music-is-infested-with-problematic-white-supremacy-of-course-what-else\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T22:58:15","slug":"magazine-says-classical-music-is-infested-with-problematic-white-supremacy-of-course-what-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/magazine-says-classical-music-is-infested-with-problematic-white-supremacy-of-course-what-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazine Says Classical Music Is Infested with Problematic White Supremacy (Of Course, What Else?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Over the week, there have been waves of backlash at The Metropolitan Opera\u2019s newest season announcement. A recent Washington Post made the rounds, taking to task the institution\u2019s insistence on an entirely white and male composer list, as well as a completely male roster of conductors taking the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is especially no exception, as evidenced by the Lyric Opera\u2019s lack of awareness in their recent copy for their 2018\/2019 season right on their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We pride ourselves on bringing you diverse programming, and the 2018\/19 Season is no exception. Verdi and Puccini in all their passion, elegant Handel and Mozart, romantic Massenet, mighty Strauss and Wagner\u2014there\u2019s no end to the riches that will make this season one to remember.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a white man, there have been and continue to be countless times in which I have needed to recognize that privilege, white supremacy, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and gender normativity are layered issues. It\u2019s easy to call a Nazi a racist because they are so obviously a racist. Not all racists are willing to take up that mantle.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that Classical Music has implied White Supremacy for centuries is hard for those that study the art form. In fact, that correlating The Met\u2019s continued programming of dead white men to the rise of White Supremacist tendencies in America is not a far stretch is starting to become apparent to those that follow and review the company\u2019s season announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Italian Opera&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/magazine-says-classical-music-is-infested-with-problematic-white-supremacy-of-course-what-else\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the week, there have been waves of backlash at The Metropolitan Opera\u2019s newest season announcement. A recent Washington Post made the rounds, taking to task the institution\u2019s insistence on an entirely white and male composer list, as well as a completely male roster of conductors taking the podium. Chicago is especially no exception, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}