01-03-2017, 11:38 PM
(01-03-2017, 04:38 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: But just as I would not push Johann Sebastian Bach, a part of my culture, upon black people (even if his music is poignant and rhythmically-powerful), neither would I push his music in Appalachia. Multiculturalism, if it is to have meaning, must include respect for the home-spun culture of Appalachia and the Ozarks as well as of white cultural elites and middle-class minorities.
Isn't the fiddle a traditional instrument of Appalachia? Bach wrote plenty of good music for the fiddle. You don't have to push it, but there's no reason for cultural apartheid, either.