Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility

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Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility is written by Assistant Professor of Music Teaching and Learning William J Coppola and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019769294X (ISBN 10) and 9780197692943 (ISBN 13).

"Scenes from the music video unravel quickly under a piano loop and an 808 drum groove. The figure raps from Jesus' center seat of a long table depicting DaVinci's The Last Supper. He lies in a pile of cash as fawning women count it all around him. Cloaked in white, he stands among a sea of men dressed in black. "Sit down," he repeatedly commands while he stubbornly stands. "Be humble." The all-caps title of Kendrick Lamar's hit song "HUMBLE." leaves no question that his song is, or should be, about humility. Yet, many would probably write it off as an audacious display of bravado instead. His opening question - "wicked or weakness?" - points precisely to this contradiction: a socially constructed binary between arrogance and humility. A Black man who projects strength, resilience, and pride is judged as arrogant; wicked. But to be humble is to be servile; weak"--