The University of California, Merced has removed certain music classes from their schedule of classes. The reason given is they want “ethnomusicology” and no music from the European or American traditions. Although we agree adding music from other cultures is a good idea, we still want the western traditions as well.
We, the undersigned want "world music" to include music that comes from European and American traditions, such as jazz, classical, folk, rock, hip hop, rap and other forms and styles of western hemisphere. Please do not remove any of the existing music classes. Add, do not subtract.
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