Theresa, you’re being PC, too, only now it stands for “Professionally
Correct”. I’m not an academic either, nor have I students. I would like to
think I uphold scholarly standards in what I do. But the labels don’t matter
a tubful of spit. Academic is as academic does: I hope that, as a publisher,
I am at least as exiguous as the university presses. And though I have no
students, I earn my living by writing and I have the same duty of truth by
my readers. Where’s the difference?
Skål
Martin
Martin Anderson
Toccata Press
www.drakeint.co.uk/toccata-press
-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Muir [mailto:theresamuir@juno.com]
Sent: Thursday, 07 March 2002 01:59
To: martin.anderson@firenet.uk.com
Cc: mlist@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Sharon vs. Barenboim
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:28:14 -0000 "Martin Anderson" <
martin.anderson@firenet.uk.com <mailto:martin.anderson@firenet.uk.com> >
writes:
I agree with Michael but not for entirely the same reasons. Hope, I’m afraid
I see your interdiction as symptomatic of the extent to which political
correctness has paralysed American academia. You are basically saying: “Let’
s not discuss this topic IN CASE anyone says something contentious”. For
once music intersects with real life – at the hard end, too -- and we’re not
allowed to talk about it? It strikes me that your students might actively
expect you to have some views on the subject, and if they don’t, you ought
to be asking the questions that start them thinking. Sweep issues like this
under the carpet and you are in dereliction of duty.
Cheers
Martin
Martin,
I wouldn't have thought that you would assume that everyone who posts to
this list (or AMS-L) is an academic, or has students.
Just popping up to grind *my* ax.
Theresa
Theresa Muir
Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo: facta est quasi vidua domina
gentium
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