This is so dumb. Who listens to these social justice bean counters?
The College Fix reports:
College study: There are too many ‘male-identified’ jazz educatorsIt probably comes as no surprise in this day and age that there exists a place called the “Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice” at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.The institute claims jazz “remains predominantly male due to a biased system,” which “impos[es] a significant toll on those who aspire to work in it.”So its main page asks right under the title banner “What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy?”A recent study by the institute appears to confirm the assertion as it shows “male-identified jazz educators” outnumber “female-identified counterparts” by six to one. The latter group comprises just eight percent of instrumental jazz instructors, and only 15 percent of all jazz faculty.Researcher Lara Pellegrinelli (pictured), an “ethnomusicologist” who received her PhD in music from Harvard and teaches at The New School, contributed to the study.According to the research, “women are outnumbered substantially on the most popular jazz instruments; in every faculty rank and as administrators; leading ensembles and teaching studio lessons; and teaching academic subjects, such as music history, music theory, and composition.”“How have these hierarchies endured?” the study asks.The researchers further claim “although some scholars and writers have attempted to restore women to jazz history, this is not enough […] we must identify spheres of musical activity in which we can untangle the threads of systemic gender bias, halting the erasure of female-identified artists now while ensuring that their careers find the institutional support needed for them to thrive in the future.”
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