Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 09:49:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <20240514094954.000026fc@example.com> References: <9kednTImBeTyi977nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 15:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="083677973bdef49384224bff8d682ff2"; logging-data="216697"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Benv38qEe6pMwCtGUDtHnyxUDxn1Fn00=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:BEk6FjDuButAcRqDLX+vq2mHkBY= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240514-0, 5/13/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2784 On Tue, 14 May 2024 07:44:47 +0000 BTR1701 wrote: > Who knew that everyday when I sit down and engrave film scores for the > live-to-picture and historical archiving projects, I'm actually > practicing white supremacy. > > Thank god we have radical leftist 'progressives' to make us aware of > these things! > > ------------------------ > Staff members within the University of Oxford's music department have > deemed sheet music "colonialist" and have suggested ways to > "decolonize" the curriculum. > > Professors said that music notation has not "shaken off its > connection to its colonial past" and that not rebranding it would be > a "slap in the face" for students of color, according to documents > reviewed by the British outlet The Telegraph. > > The same faculty also reportedly questioned whether the current > curriculum was complicit in "white supremacy," pointing to the > program's focus on "white European music from the slave period"-- > composers like Mozart and Beethoven. > > The professors further suggested that certain classical music > skills-- like playing the piano and conducting orchestral > arrangements-- ought not to be required because they structurally > center "white European music" and cause "students of color great > distress". These lunatics are literally trying to destroy literally every last vestige of Western Civilization - and we're letting them, despite the absurdity of their ideas. It's the Death of a Thousand Cuts approach to destroying our culture and replacing it with something much MUCH worse. You should read Douglas Murray's The War on the West. -- Rhino