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

[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.

[GOP Poet]

Well put!!!

[Organic Panic]

Imagine how fat and comfortable people in some of the most prestigious colleges in the world have become where THESE are the problems they invent. And there is a bit of irony in the justification. The “We wuz kangz” crowd have claimed both Mozart and Beethoven were, in fact, black.

[Mariner]

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

You know, darn near every piece of great music came from those guys, in that era.

Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto still sends me into an alternate universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXWK3W477w

BTW: The above link is the finest musical talent of the 20th century gathered in one place. 100% white men.

[blueplum]

the english have gone out in the noon-day sun again