Thread by @Silpayamanant

I wonder if my music career would have been different if I'd had opportunities like this or an environment that didn't encourage assimilation and hiding of non-white ethnic heritages!

UCLA Summer World Music Intensive Online for High School students
schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/summer-ethnomu…

There are more and more diverse music education programs emerging recently that aren’t so WAM and WPM centric, but these music education ecosystems take time and resources to build.

silpayamanant.wordpress.com/diversity-incl…

This also impacts the diverse music ecosystems of groups since both WAM and WPM are two sides of a colonial paradigm.

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1405206967581351938

It's interesting because we're so many centuries in from the explicit role and usage of music in assimilative practices (e.g. slave orchestras; residential schools) that we don't see it passively playing that role in schools and popular culture today.

cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol18/iss1…

Assimilation models can actually be an interesting and useful way to show music cultural drift from 1st gen to x gen groups.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

"In this excerpt from Tempered, an Australian music lover with Vietnamese parents discovers that some of the most oppressive racism is internalised"

I thought assimilation was the key to happiness, but I ended up trapped in a cultural prison -Vivian Huynh
theguardian.com/music/2016/mar…

“Rockin’ all over the world”: The Assimilation of Rock Music in Five European Countries (a comparative study)
-Maria Kouvarou
etheses.dur.ac.uk/10745/

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1405945777952808960