Posted on 03/29/2021 8:51:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the things about living in a totalitarian society is that, once something has been identified as problematic, everyone ends up competing to attack in the most aggressive way. Fail to do so, and you may find yourself being the next person identified as problematic. Perhaps that explains why the University of Oxford, founded in 1096, is contemplating ending sheet music because it’s part of white supremacy.
To be honest, it’s a little bit hard to make sense of the story because it’s so screamingly stupid. Apparently, music professors are claiming that all Western classical music has “complicity in white supremacy.” This seems to include such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Handel, all of whom were living in continental Europe in the 17th through 19th centuries and none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with Blacks, Africa, or the slave trade.
The problem is that they and their musical notations existed at the same time as the African slave trade. And that’s not a typo:
University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.
Documents seen by the publication indicate proposed reforms to target undergraduate courses.
It claimed that teaching musical notation had 'not shaken off its connection to its colonial past' and would be 'a slap in the face' to some students.
And it added that musical skills should no longer be compulsory because the current repertoire's focus on 'white European music' causes 'students of colour great distress'.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
But how would one know in what key one was playing? /s
“Idiocracy” was a documentary.
Jimi Hendrix couldn’t read sheet music.
I don’t think that the Swampers at Muscle Shoals could either
Why stop at musical notation? As far as I know no sub-Saharan culture ever developed a form of writing so let’s eliminate that too while we’re at it.
“If Miles Davis was still alive, he’d find the person who would say this kind of garbage and kick their ass.”
And dittos for Charley Pride, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston....the list goes on and on.
“Even worse musical notation provides rythym and melody”
Also, it makes children more apt to do well in math. And, as we know, math is racist.
C'mon people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now
With the nihilists anyhow.
It is time forfree expression without racist, exclusivistic, restrictions to keep people down. We need more creative freedom so we can hear music like this!
Take that haters!
Jimmy Page couldn’t either.
Rape music ?
>We need more creative freedom so we can hear music like this!
And this !...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFFvthfEZg
Anybody stupid enough to feel that way needs to be slapped. Twice.
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