University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raise concerns about music curriculums’ ‘complicity in white supremacy’ after Black Lives Matter movement
- Professors set to reform music courses to move away from the classic repertoire
- Staff argued curriculum focuses on ‘white European music from slave period’
- It is thought that music writing will also be reformed to be more inclusive
Professors are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on ‘white European music from the slave period’, according to The Telegraph.
The University of Oxford (Merton College pictured) is considering scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raised concerns about the ‘complicity in white supremacy’ in music curriculums
Documents seen by the publication indicate proposed reforms to target undergraduate courses.
It claimed that teaching musical notation had ‘not shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ and would be ‘a slap in the face’ to some students.
And it added that musical skills should no longer be compulsory because the current repertoire’s focus on ‘white European music’ causes ‘students of colour great distress’.
It is thought that music writing will also be reformed to be more inclusive.
But the proposals caused upset among some faculty members who argued that it was unfair to accuse those teaching music from before 1900 of being concerned with just ‘white’.
MailOnline has contacted the University of Oxford for comment.
It comes after one Oxford college removed the name of an 18th-century slave trader from its main library earlier this year – but has defied calls to take down his statue.
It comes after one Oxford college, All Souls College, removed the name of an 18th-century slave trader from its main library earlier this year – but has defied calls to take down his statue
A marble statue by Edward Cheere of the benefactor has been standing in the library after Codrington bequeathed £10,000 to the college
All Souls College reviewed its link to Christopher Codrington, a Barbados-born colonial governor, in the wake of last year’s Black Lives Matter movement.
The former college fellow who died in 1710 bequeathed £10,000 to the library which has since been unofficially known as the Codrington Library.
A marble statue by Edward Cheere of the benefactor has been standing in the library for centuries and the college says it has no plans to take it down despite the clamour from students.
The All Souls governing body said: ‘Rather than seek to remove it the College will investigate further forms of memorialisation and contextualisation within the library, which will draw attention to the presence of enslaved people on the Codrington plantations, and will express the College’s abhorrence of slavery.’
Their review found that Codrington’s wealth ‘derived largely from his family’s activities in the West Indies, where they owned plantations worked by enslaved people of African descent’.
The college claims it has undertaken a number of measures to address the colonial legacy, including erecting a memorial plaque in memory of those who worked on the Caribbean plantations.
Haha. Hilarious! An everyday attack on whites in Britain . Universities now have no brains and no balls.
This Oxford folly proves you can have a high IQ and yet be a drooling idiot. 😉
Over educated jackasses are the fade of today. Can any of these idiots even tie their loafers?
This racist BS is fed by the greatest racists in history. Watch out — they will give us another Hitler!
Carl, the universities are all run by the Jew, and I must say the Jew has balls so heavy he drags them on the ground!! Who else would move into a culture and open up shop removing everything in site from the host culture. Imagine if you will, walking into your neighbors house and telling him that putting his stuff everywhere is non inclusive, and he must accept things from other houses!! Holy shit if the Jew did that to not only entire continents but entire races and is working on the planet! Don’t take this the wrong way, I hate the jew with every cell. But his balls or at least his audacity knows no bounds. It’s time we stopped looking like deers in headlights at the aforementioned audacity and took it to him mano e mano.
Looking at the picture of the African with for us such horrible head and lip “adornments” reminds me of how alien the mentalities or mindset of other races can be.
In this case it shows openly and very visually.
But in the case of jews, they also have a very alien mentality with ritual murders and in general seeing as virtues things that for us are evils or sins.
But jews conceal it all very well, they don’t put on display their alien-like minds as the africans do.
White Guilt has been gone beyond. I know that for a fact for this has been accomplished by me personally. And once such a mental disease has been surpassed by one of us that is the end of it, for the deed is communicable. Like magic the surpassing of it happens throughout the White world almost instantaneously. White Guilt is dead as a doornail, in truth, and those seemingly affected by it are not fully real.
I think pants are too colonial. No one should wear pants anymore. Pants are racist.
The wheel, the sail, metallurgy and the alphabet also promote white supremacy and were forced on the poor Africans. 😉