Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 07:44:47 +0000 User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: BTR1701 Message-ID: <9kednTImBeTyi977nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 07:44:47 +0000 Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Hu33Mkc+Ks9edPU6JXW4UjbwQ/ah4J4iJ4oQFbXmabC3uWx1ZoEI0X0IHOG2LKfFescEbv3TSEV/bgn!ZP6+e6omMYiVGLN6Zd4OImACVKW6ANrsWZiT+jGOjcFIpgVqRuVZnD/HR0q80XWE8rSXIsnUuA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2255 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".