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Dead White European Male
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Dead White European Male, Dead White Male
n
(Sociology) a man whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated because he belonged to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group


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A surprise bestseller, the book generated enormous controversy, and Hirsch was denounced by many academics as, along with other insults, an elitist and an apologist for the canon of dead white males.
29 with pianist Evgeny Kissin joining Salonen and the orchestra - offers both an impressive roster of works by living composers (Thomas Ades, John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Reich and others) and plenty of music from the proverbial dead white males (Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich).
They argued that history had been fossilized, that it was simply a concoction of the sugar-coated exploits of Dead White Males.
 
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