[Joshua Banks Mailman]

Hi all,

As long as all the official business of the the Post-1945 Group takes place on HC Commons, I really don’t see any harm in keeping the FB Group.  (And I don’t find approving new members particularly burdensome.) In fact, I would say: if the post-1945 group only sees itself as focused on SMT exclusive business, it has somewhat lost sight of its greater purpose, which is to cultivate knowledge of and interest in analysis of art music from post-1945. In a time when “public music theory” has started to take flight, and the relevance and appreciation of music in general are–shall we say–under scrutiny, it ought to be a good thing for people outside of SMT to be aware of the scholarly activities of post-1945 music analysis. That’s 600 more people out there in the world who might be willing to opine that the activity is worth supporting, or at least that it exists. For the same reasons that SMT has open access journals like SMT-V and MTO (which I suspect are  viewed and read mostly by people who do not attend SMT conferences) I see it as a good thing for the post-1945 music analysis group to maintain an outreach presence that visibly extends beyond academia, and so why shut down something that hundreds of people have already flocked to purely out of interest in this completely non-lucrative nerdy subject? Anyway, those are my thoughts on the subject.

Josh

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Joshua Banks Mailman.
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