> An outcome of the second, critical statement could be that music departments continue to teach music by Beethoven, Wagner, and co., and use that music – whose

> An outcome of the second, critical statement could be that music departments continue to teach music by Beethoven, Wagner, and co., and use that music – whose quiddity as music is analysed in order to allow it to feed into the general framework – to offer intellectually critical insights into the social, political, economic, legal, and other structures of the world in which it was written, and later canonized, and now consumed by the musical public My impression is that is exactly what postcolonial approach to musicology does. Maybe it's getting worse as humanities are being underfunded in general.