While we're on the subject of decolonising music history/teaching: the first piece of music made by manipulating tape recordings is from Africa. Halim El-Dabh wrote "Ta'abir al-Zaar" ["The Expression of Zaar"] in 1944.
You can find out more about him from his website: http://www.halimeldabh.com/
Note that he was spotted by the US government as a talented composer and recruited to a US University, so there's not a good excuse for ignoring his work, and yet he's not often discussed.
Which is to say: I don't want to shame people for not knowing about this, but the information is just waiting to be found!
If you do any work on uncovering forgotten pieces by composers who are not white, can I please encourage you to put at least rough outlines onto wikipedia?
Remember that any page you create needs three points of notability, so please find the citations first and then fill in the details. Then, please add them to this list if they're in electronic art music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electroacoustic_composers_of_color
This is a slightly tedious but very doable method of helping right historic wrongs in the western canon.
That's great! This is so useful for students.
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Charles 𝄢 H
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