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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Is the university trying to say black people can’t read or write music? Isn’t that in itself racist?
That’s strange. The article says the man was not arrested and the caption says he was. The newspaper contradicts itself. They need better editorial control.
They gonna replace sheet music with maybe cuneiform on clay tablets?? How asinine!
Stewart Copeland (the drummer for the police) said: some people are auditory musicians and others are visual musicians.
Auditory musicians learn by hearing.
Visual musicians learn by seeing (sheet music).
Teaching the piano or conducting orchestras could cause “students of colour great distress.”
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Hey! That baton is white. And it demands obedience.
Meanwhile sheet music, with time signatures requires counting.
Up to 4! And sometimes 6 or 8!
And those poor, poor little 1/16 notes. Vestiges of poverty.
Sitting on a busy street corner drumming on plastic buckets to a random rythm is not music.
High- Low-Low- High - high-lowlow................
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Sorry, that’s already taken: Stairway to Heaven.
Some folks can’t read.
Quincy Jones begs to differ. Duke Ellington begs to differ. Scott Joplin begs to differ. Otis Redding begs to differ. The Marsalis family begs to differ.
“See what your University is like in 10 years”
I think everyone is missing the point here. The goal is to make college free, right? Well, how are you going to do that if you are trying to provide something of value?
Also playing music in a certain key denotes that locks are involved.
I don't know how sharps and flats are racist, but I'm sure they are.
Beethoven started going deaf at 25.
For most of his life he was unable to hear the details of most instruments. In his letters he talked about not being able to hear flutes or people singing—sounds that others heard.
For much of his life, he laid his head on the piano while composing, because that was the only way he could hear anything at all. The vibrations from the piano against this side of his head was his auditory experience.
Beethoven wrote his 9th symphony after he went completely deaf—COMPLETELY DEAF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=121LT-2vFWY
But what the heck, let’s cancel all he accomplished despite adversity, because he’s a dead white guy.
Classical musicians use both.
Translation: “reading music is hard”
There might be certain musical patterns that need to be banned. Perhaps all classical music since - well, you know.
Instead of being shocked, let's encourage them to go all the way...no more dabbling or half-way measures.
Oxford should get rid of EVERYTHING created by Whites...all White music, all math and sciences, all languages except African, gay, and trans.
Let's get this thing DONE.
And no more NHS except for non-White physicians/nurses and that medicine invented/discovered/developed by non-Whites.
I once thought of Oxford University as being one of the top Universities in the United States. Seeing some of the garbage coming out of Oxford recently, I have changed my mind.
Ole Miss is in Oxford, Mississippi.
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