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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The overtone series which occurs in nature and then is used in music [not noise] is pure mathematics, as Pythagoras found.
DESTRUCTION is the name of leftism.
Insane. Mass hysteria.
Next - books written in any European language will be called racist. Let’s all go back to grunting and muttering and wielding clubs. Civilization is racist!
The Marsalis brothers are obviously classically trained.
The Beatles couldn’t read music and they were white.
It’s most likely just a couple of the worst loons pushing this. Yet such loons are given big status for some strange reason. Who put these wackos in charge? Why does what they think matter?
The media makes them seem more numerous than they are. Eliminate reporters and see peace spread through9out the world.
This madness will soon have to end.
Time to shut the colleges and universities down!
Once we get rid of sheet music, it will clear the decks for all the great innovations to come out of Africa.
ML/NJ
Perhaps they'd like to start with this.
Or this.
As a play-by-ear musician I can make more sense of that notation than standard written music.
Walter Murphy Band was the best.
But they had George Martin.
How many of them are embracing MEghan?
No shortage of stupidity with the race baiters they sound like winos that found a liquor door unlocked at 2:am.
It's the slave mindset. Slaves don't dream of being free, they dream of being the master.
what slaves?
I should have said in the world, not in the United States. I do not know what I was thinking.
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