2026-07-18 07:11 UTC
@mcmullin@musicians.today @composers@fedigroups.social
It can be fraught. I remember being at a new music session where a composer from one country gave the singers expressions that they thought was what the people from another country would say. I could hear mutterings beside me from a person from that place "cultural appropriation " and more.
Of course as you describe it your piece was collaborative so that charge could not be levelled against it.
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-18 12:52
@PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie Yes, I’ve heard plenty of examples of cultural appropriation in new music, some detestable. And I can understand how someone might accuse me of that regarding a couple of my compositions, but I do my best to approach other cultures, when I do, with humility and respect. In this case, there were special circumstances too; I wasn’t really even going outside my family. @composers@fedigroups.social #composing