User:BudjarnLambeth/Cultural appropriation-o-meter: Difference between revisions

* '''5 stars''' = Respectful name that encourages people to check out the tradition which inspired it, without claiming to be identical to that tradition

* '''4 stars''' = Respectful name with slight flaws, which encourages people to check out the tradition which inspired it, without claiming to be identical to that tradition

* '''3 stars''' = Name with substantial flaws, but more good points

* '''2 stars''' = Name that seriously risks misrepresenting a tradition or falsely claiming credit for that tradition, or risks stealing from a tradition without giving credit

* '''1 stars''' = Name that misrepresents a tradition or falsely claims credit for that tradition, or which steals from a tradition without giving credit

===== Gamelic =====

 

 

Fortunately the name "gamelic" never really caught on and isn't widely used.

 

==== Maqamic ====

* "Pelomatic" = "pelog approximated with mathematics"

* "Pelographic" = "pelog approximated with RTT graphs"

 

;Difficulty of renaming: Low. I don't know of temperaments named after pelogic nor much written about it, so it should be painless to change.

 

[[49/48]], the “slendro diesis”, doesn’t appear to have much too in common with [[slendro]], besides being tempered out in equipentatonic and quasi-equipentatonic tunings like [[5edo]] and [[semaphore]][5].

 

 

Luckily, this interval has two other names, “'''large septimal diesis'''” and “'''semaphore comma'''”, so hopefully they will gradually replace it over time.

* "Zurutal, zurutar, zuruti" = The letter z represents the winding path the temperaments took across the world

* "Srutalic, shrutaran, srutinian" = Resembles diatonic mode names, which are another low complexity 2.3.5 tuning

* "Krutal, krutar, kruti" = The short "k" sound represents how nimble and efficient the tunings are at approximating JI

;Difficulty of renaming: High. Lots of other temperaments are named in reference to these, lots of music and theory has been written with these, it'd be a massive pain.

=== 2 stars (fail) ===  

 

;Difficulty of renaming: Low. I don't know of temperaments named after slendric nor much written about it, so it should be painless to change.

So it’s fine I suppose.

"Maqamic" has been renamed to "[[neutrominant]]". While that's a big improvement, it isn’t perfect. Good enough, but not perfect.

Neutrominant does still get a solid passing grade, though, because it does at least still reference neutral thirds in its name, which are a concept associated with Arabic music.  

And also, the wiki page for neutrominant temperament does devote almost its entire length to explaining the similarities, differences and relationship with maqams (it’s a really good page), so it’s not as if the community is trying to hide the temperament’s origins, they are very enthusiastic about sharing them.

 

So neutrominant is okay, it’s a good enough name, could be better, but pretty neat.

The name is similar enough to slendro that there is a tad possibility for confusion, so I can’t give too many stars, but really it probably is different enough that it’s fine. I don’t think anyone is likely to mix up “slendro” and “slendrismic”.  

So, it gets a pass.

[[Injera]] temperament is named after an Ethopian flatbread, because 26edo supports it and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 letters. A slightly goofy reason for a name, and the temperament doesn't have much to do with Ethopia, but it's not stealing anything, and it might encourage people to check out Ethopian breadmaking, so that's quite neat.

Closely based on [[mohajira]] temperament, [[migration]] maybe doesn't give quite ''enough'' credit to the original Arabic inspiration of the tuning.

 

Its name is the English translation of mohajira's name, so it does still give credit indirectly by doing that, so that's why it's still rated so highly.  

A little bit more direct credit would be nice. But it's still pretty cool.

It is perhaps named a little too close to "rast", but it is probably different enough to avoid confusion. "Rastmic scale" is unlikely to be confused with "rast scale", for example.

=== 5 stars (high distinction) ===

[[Mavila]] is not directly named after a traditional [[African|Chopi]] tuning, but is instead named after a village where that tuning was used.  

What would have been ''bad'' is if the traditional 7 tone scale itself had been called the "mavila scale" and the temperament had stolen the name. But since Mavila was only the name of a village, not the traditional name of the scale, it's completely good.

 

What would have also been bad is to call the temperament "Chopi", because then you're claiming affiliation with that entire culture, which would be appropriation.

This is actually kind of a timeless way to name scales and tunings throughout history: [[5L2s|phrygian, dorian, etc.]] are all named after geographical places, so are many of the maqams. Naming a scale after a village near where you found it is a fun strategy.  

Important to mention, too, Mavila is actually very very close to the Chopi tuning and is directly inspired by it, so it is quite appropriate for it to have a name related to that. It's not just had the name tacked onto it, it really merits the name.

Pelotonic is the [[TAMNAMS]] name for the MOS scale [[2L 5s]]. This name is awesome in every way.

2L 5s really does resemble the 7-tone version of the pelog scale, so it's quite appropriate to note that similarity in the name.

And even that added bit "tonic" is really smart, because it tells the theorist exactly in what way is this "pelotonic" similar to pelog: It's pelo''tonic'', it has the same number of large vs small leaps as pelog.