PHL105Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Chauvinism, Ethnocentrism
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White musicians cannot play the blues in an authentic way (ethnocentrism) a form of racial chauvinism about a certain genre. Sing is going to cover everything as to perform, compose, (everything a composer may have to do) Only the group who owns the blues can authentically perform and compose it (african american) The situation the slaves were in was very constrained so the only way of communicating among themselves were expressed through these songs. If you are not a slave or a slave descendent you don"t know enough of what is like to be a slave and thus. Ethnocentric says this group thus owns the style. A big gap between origination of a style to ownership of said style. White performers gave no credit to the african americans. He doesn"t want to reject either of the claims. He doesn"t agree with the experiential argument because he refers to the myth of ethnic memory.
