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currentmusicology-8729	Johnson-Williams, Erin	Valuing Whiteness: The Presumed Innocence of Musical Truth	2023	31	.pdf	application/pdf	14405	708	46	As Juliett Hess points out, received musical standards are set according to “specific Western constructs for expressing meter, dynamics, and articulations,” so that even when so-called “diverse” examples are added to repertoire lists, “Western music in music education [still] acts as a colonizer” (2015, 337). Without the commodification of the idea of absolutism, absolute music as a concept would not have been so pervasive—and one wonders whether the idea that western music possesses aesthetic values that are above and beyond contextualization (racial, financial or otherwise) would have become so prevalent.	cache/currentmusicology-8729.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-8729.txt