Posted on 03/29/2021 7:25:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Oxford University is considering proposals that would remove sheet music from its curriculum over claims that the Western form of musical notation has roots in “colonialism” and “complicity in white supremacy”.
In response to widespread Black Lives Matter riots in the United Kingdom, music educators at Oxford have joined the wider iconoclastic movement which has been sweeping through British academia.
The music department at the prestigious and ancient university has seen calls to remove music notation from the curriculum as professors seek to focus less on white European heritage and culture.
The woke educators went on to claim that musical notation itself is a “colonialist representational system” that has “complicity to white supremacy”. The claim is similar to leftist pronouncements in America that mathematics is inherently racist.
The Oxford academics pronounced that as the skills involved are closely tied to “white European music”.
Professors at the university said that the classical music which is taught at Oxford, which includes Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert, is too focused on “white European music from the slave period”.
The assertion is somewhat dubious, as Western classical music, as well as the practice of sheet music notation, predates the Atlantic slave trade, stemming back to musical traditions from the medieval period such as Gregorian chant.
In response to student demands “arising from Black Lives Matter demonstrations,” the Oxford faculty is also considering placing a heavier emphasis on “non-Eurocentric” musical traditions such as Hip-Hop and Jazz, as well as “African and African Diasporic Musics” and “Global Musics”.
In February the University of Leicester caused uproar after it proposed removing seminal works such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf — in favour of focusing on texts relating to sexuality, diversity, race, and ethnicity.
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Oh, yes. Please do. And shut down the Oxford Mathematical Institute and all the various math and science departments.
Idiocracy...
Yes - throw everything away! All Books - all research material - it all needs to go.
See what your University is like in 10 years
Oxford university should just scrap education. Hey, wait! They probably already have.
Then don’t enroll those that are too stupid to go to college.
Why not just burn England. They are such idiots.
Yes - throw everything away! All Books - all research material - it all needs to go.
See what your University is like in 10 years
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Don’t need to wait 10 years. The University is already lost.
Miles always brought charts to his recording sessions.
Oxford University should close itself down. Higher education be raciss.
Note the two-pronged attack —
If I wanted to wear my hair in cornrows, the would call that “cultural appropriation”. You see, corn rows as a “black thing” and as a white person, I am not allowed to partake in “black things”.
If I want to enjoy sheet music, they would call that “white supremacy”. You see, as a vestige of colonialism, and white supremacy, there are some things that are “white things” and, as a white person, I am not allowed to partake in “white things”.
They want me to have NOTHING.
They want EVERYTHING.
Indeed.
Real Jazz is very complex musically. I once saw an interview with Charlie Parker, in which he was asked how he devised his amazing improvisations.
Parker’s answer was filled with intervals, modes, arpeggios, and theory that the non-educated musician would have found incomprehensible.
Oh well! In the words of Rachmaninoff, “easy come, easy go!”
Woketards going to town at Oxford.
All I can say is, “Will the madness ever stop?”
So the new champions are ghetto-dwelling Blacks and their sympathizers, the Woke.
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