Knowledge Commons | Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/decolonial-narratives-in-global-music-history/ Activity feed for the group, Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 03d1314f60931b70478c09a4312925f7 Gavin S. K. Lee edited the post Decolonial Narrative 5: There Are Music Histories Elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific in the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://decolonialnarrativesinglobalmusichistory.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/decolonial-narrative-5-there-are-music-histories-elsewhere-in-sub-saharan-africa-and-asia-pacific/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:11:09 -0400 Given the geographic proximity of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, it is unsurprising that their music histories are intertwined. Because successive Greek, Roman, and Arab empires have conquered large […]

]]> 104283731caca98e3ecc74c23c6a2d24 Gavin S. K. Lee edited the post Decolonial Narrative 4: Western Music Spread Globally Due to European Colonization (1500ff.) in the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://decolonialnarrativesinglobalmusichistory.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/decolonial-narrative-4-western-music-spread-globally-due-to-european-colonization-1500ff/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:10:18 -0400 During the Islamic Golden Age, Arabic music did spread far and wide, but its influence was limited to certain parts of Afro Eurasia, and the extent of this influence varied from region to region. The first truly […]

]]> 680f299e3314185918b770403715f507 Gavin S. K. Lee edited the post Decolonial Narrative 3: European Settler Colonizers Suppressed Indigenous and African Musics (1500ff.) in the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://decolonialnarrativesinglobalmusichistory.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/decolonial-narrative-3-european-settler-colonizers-suppressed-indigenous-and-african-musics-1500ff/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:09:46 -0400 From the sixteenth century onwards, the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and Australia led to systemic impacts that suppressed Indigenous peoples, cultures, and musics. The Aztec, Mayan, and Incan […]

]]> 5cb12219aa561919f2c9a2b75087b13a Gavin S. K. Lee edited the post Decolonial Narrative 2: Arabic and Persian Music Spread Globally during the Islamic Golden Age (eighth–fourteenth century CE) and European Medieval Period (sixth–fifteenth century CE) in the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://decolonialnarrativesinglobalmusichistory.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/decolonial-narrative-2-arabic-and-persian-music-spread-globally-during-the-islamic-golden-age-eighth-fourteenth-century-ce-and-european-medieval-period-sixth-fifteenth-century-ce/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:09:07 -0400 The second narrative introduces the problem of periodization. Whereas the term “medieval” is sometimes applied to global cultures, this is not appropriate, as “medieval”—meaning “middle”—is most applicable to E […]

]]> 5ef60472fc870cb1d3eca711c39b7aaa Gavin S. K. Lee edited the post Decolonial Narrative 1: Multiple Antiquities Existed before 500 CE in the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://decolonialnarrativesinglobalmusichistory.hcommons.org/2024/06/28/decolonial-narrative-1-multiple-antiquities-existed-before-500-ce/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:08:06 -0400 This narrative makes it clear that there were multiple antiquities alongside ancient Greece and Rome. Materials for music in ancient Egypt and China are more readily available, but there are in fact multiple […]

]]> e4b9fdc0f7b6daeca62ad400e6088cb2 Gavin S. K. Lee created the group Decolonial Narratives in Global Music History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890451/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:58:14 -0400 0