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Subject: Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 15:37:27 -0400
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On 5/14/2024 3:44 AM, 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!
> 
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> 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".

Fwiw, I've sometimes wondered if musical notation, were it designed 
today, might look very different and. e.g., more intuitive to those of 
us who have struggled to sight-read.