Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".

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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>