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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Goodbye Mr. Chips!
Being able to play music “by ear” is all well and good if you’re familiar with the material.
But most professional musicians make their living having to play music they’ve never heard before, how are they going to do that?
The one's demanding reparation 160 years later.
Fire these nitwits.
Like they say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Still worse is the soul.
Yep.
And after that, spoken language is racist.
“And after that, spoken language is racist.”
Ugh.
SheetMusic...how long before t.p. is racist
I’m tempted to say, “Now I’ve heard it all” but I know for certain, that there is much worse, yet to come.
When will they start burning people because you know that is coming next.
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