Stop teaching Carmen

James Parakilas, What to do about Carmen?

"I need to start by declaring that I am not a Hispanicist and that the music I am going to talk about this evening is not Hispanic. In fact, I am going to talk about the very music that has long stood in the way of native musical representations of the Spanish. The music that we might think of as the problem, not the solution. It is in that sense that I have called my remarks here "What to do about Carmen." The most obvious thing to do about Carmen would be to stop teaching it. To get it out of the way in order to make room to teach the music of Hispanic musicians. And in some situations, that would be the best solution".