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University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' 'complicity in white supremacy' after Black Lives Matter movement
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 27, 2021 | Raven Saunt

Posted on 03/28/2021 4:23:47 AM PDT by C19fan

he University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raised concerns about the 'complicity in white supremacy' in music curriculums.

Professors are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; woke
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Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Elgar has has got to go!!!
1 posted on 03/28/2021 4:23:47 AM PDT by C19fan
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Good grief


2 posted on 03/28/2021 4:34:20 AM PDT by southernindymom
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Why are they living in the past?? And trying to erase it at the same time. Makes no sense at all.

Are we suppose to replace it with the disgusting cr** that rappers have put out.

3 posted on 03/28/2021 4:34:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I am so sick of starting to read an article and then having to check to see if it was written by the Babylon Bee. Sadly this one isn’t.


4 posted on 03/28/2021 4:39:52 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: C19fan

Either the world has become completely insane, or I have.


5 posted on 03/28/2021 4:39:55 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Its what they get for jumping on a bandwagon that started in America. Mind you that bandwagon has dubious aspects to it the Brits are way too slow to investigate.


6 posted on 03/28/2021 4:41:06 AM PDT by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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“Eradicate Whiteness”
7 posted on 03/28/2021 4:41:41 AM PDT by fluorescence
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The neo-Marxist cultural revolution has spread throughout Europe. Western civilization is being destroyed and no one is doing anything to stop it. (Well, some of the French are at least trying.)


8 posted on 03/28/2021 4:42:50 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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It looks like the only way we’re going to make the race-baiting, Neanderthal “minorities” happy is to go back to the Stone Age. Any Neanderthal will tell you that you don’t need sheet music when beating on a log with a club while flapping you lips can get the job done.


9 posted on 03/28/2021 4:44:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period'...

Well by all means, beat some skin drums, bang some coconuts together and play that didgeridoo boy, play that didgeridoo.

10 posted on 03/28/2021 4:44:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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Will replace Mozart with “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”


11 posted on 03/28/2021 4:47:32 AM PDT by kjam22
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The “destroyers” will not be happy til we are back to Stone Age conditions.


12 posted on 03/28/2021 4:48:49 AM PDT by Sloopy
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A prankster could have a bit of fun with this. “The windows in Oxford buildings were all installed by white craftsmen. I demand that every last window on campus be removed, and be replaced by minority craftspeople!”

Seeing as “woke” administrators always fold to such silly demands, Oxford would probably do it.


13 posted on 03/28/2021 4:49:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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This is on par with eliminating blind auditions for filling orchestra seats because not enough women and BIPOCs were being selected.

🤡🌎


14 posted on 03/28/2021 4:49:58 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Sheet music in general is racist...? What about “Etude” magazines?
These people seriously are INSANE.
(I actually do have some of Grandma’s sheet music from the early 1900s with terribly racist covers. They’re “put away”, and not on the piano.)


15 posted on 03/28/2021 4:50:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.)
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Add in some vulgar racism, cuss every third word, degrade females, and threaten police lives and it should be ok.

In any case trying to find racism in anything imaginable hopefully won’t be a political strategy for long, everyone is laughing at it now.


16 posted on 03/28/2021 4:51:07 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: MissEdie

Some people here blame the Europeans for getting the ball rolling with the theories that all of this is based on and there is some truth to that. But the USA took those foundations, expanded on them significantly, made them extremely virulent and dangerous, and through the influence of our entertainment, media, and tech industries infected the entire western world with them. And yes, there are dark, powerful figures both here and internationally working behind the scenes to spread it. But the common American is not entirely innocent as we let it get to a point where they can do this.


17 posted on 03/28/2021 4:54:34 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Sloopy
The “destroyers” will not be happy til we are back to Stone Age conditions all dead.
18 posted on 03/28/2021 4:56:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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"...music from the slave period"?

Do these numb-nuts realize the "slave period" they are referring to is all of history? When didn't mankind enslave people?

19 posted on 03/28/2021 5:00:28 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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Even such a wonderful place as Oxford is allowing the crap to drip from the left.

Come on, Brits. Shove the idiots out the door. They do not deserve to even clean the toilets...er...loos.


20 posted on 03/28/2021 5:02:02 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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