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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 17:48:01 -0400
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On 5/16/2024 4:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v25n9o$1nnt0$3@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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!
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> 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.
> 
> Yes, and because the current system isn't a dream for sight-readers,
> that means it's a racist form of white supremacy.
> 
> (Because only white people can sight read perfectly or something.)
> 
> <rolls eyes>

I trust you roll only the whites...