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
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Raven Saunt
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/27/2021 11:55:56 PM
The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raised concerns about the 'complicity in white supremacy' in music curriculums. 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.(Snip) 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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/28/2021 12:09:04 AM (No. 737124)
Blm will extort all humanity until the world becomes a ' third world planet'. The good news is that we'd all be equal. Kind of like Haiti.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/28/2021 12:10:57 AM (No. 737125)
Once you understand it’s a COM-MU-NIST organization, it makes it easier to argue that BLM has no legitimate grievances against our cultural heritage, no matter how scurrilous the attacks by their toady media partners.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
marbles 3/28/2021 12:12:00 AM (No. 737127)
What exactly is " colonial " about Mozart and Beethoven ? Great music written by exceptional composers. By the way, blacks are not the only people that have ever been slaves Over the centuries.there have been slaves of every race .
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2021 12:22:35 AM (No. 737132)
LOL!
Yeah, that's it.....go directly back to Africa, circa 1700, and get rid of all those damned "white" trappings, like living in heated homes, using indoor plumbing and not using spears for weapons.
These people are entirely, totally insane. Clinically deranged.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/28/2021 1:39:34 AM (No. 737166)
Yes, oh and while we are at it, let's eliminate white supremacy in the field of medicine. No more pills or vaccines or cleanliness or sterilization. No more anesthesia or complex surgeries or cancer treatments. No more x-rays or CTscans or MRIs. Voo doo dolls, bits of animals used to ward off evil spirits, incense, tintures and potions and the like is all that is allowed.
But why stop there. Think of all the corrupting forces of white supremacy. Electricity, paved roads, concrete buildings, plumbing, computers and phones, airplanes, cars, trains.... oh the list goes on and on.
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"People do what you let them" Somebody needs to get over themselves. Damn that Nikki Haley.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/28/2021 2:15:38 AM (No. 737189)
So.... what dey gonna be's teachin'?
Rap?
Go check out de words (de white devils, de calls 'em Lyrics) to 'WAP' what dat gal Cardi B laid down.
De mos' Pop'lar Rap in de las' yea'.
DAT be de Future!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NotaBene 3/28/2021 3:06:40 AM (No. 737201)
Without musical notation we should go back to poets and troubadours like Homer. Homer was a White blind dead man who started Western Literature in Greece. Nothing comparable to our talented Black rappers. Homer did not have bloody Nike sneakers an dancing Hos but used sandals and a lyre instead.
I think the Oxford Professors missed the video of when New York Africans were looting Macy’s at 34 St. while the NYPD was meekly standing by. I did not and will not forgive BLM. They destroyed our Nation and now Oxford goes after our music.
We must stop Cultural Marxism.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/28/2021 3:14:14 AM (No. 737206)
These universities need to be sued into oblivion. They all have plenty of endowments.
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I wonder if my very liberal classical music station which I love except for their politics and the NPR news they carry, knows about this one. No more Beethoven for you! All rap all the time. Nothing like garbage in and garbage out to turn the masses into brainless wonders.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DARling 3/28/2021 3:36:30 AM (No. 737219)
People laugh at me for buying CDs and loading them onto my computer. I prefer to have the original CDs to listen to just in case Amazon and other digital music vendors decide to edit or eliminate classical and classic tunes from their sites, just like they ban books from conservative authors. I don't want to be a computer crash away from losing all of my downloaded music. If I want to listen to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, nothing else will do.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read 3/28/2021 5:35:27 AM (No. 737232)
I'm quite sure that excellent black musicians like Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, and Scott Joplin could read music.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/28/2021 5:50:02 AM (No. 737233)
Just stop it! Trashing anything white does not make people of color superior. It just makes them appear jealous and petty. No one can choose their race. All these attacks have nothing to do with color and everything to do with values. Hard work, self respect, respect for others, the desire to better yourself and enjoy music, art and literature have nothing to do with race. You choose to live the life you live regardless of your color. Some races place values on different things. They have different goals. MLK was right. It is the content of your character, not the color of your skin.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/28/2021 6:26:57 AM (No. 737243)
Sheet music. All those dominantly white pages with subservient little black dots hemmed in with rows of lines.
Eh?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/28/2021 7:23:01 AM (No. 737259)
Same goes for written language I imagine.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franq 3/28/2021 7:34:51 AM (No. 737262)
Reminds me of the old My Three Sons episode. Robby had started a garage band, and a woman asked him, "Do you read music?" He replied, "Oh no, we think it would hurt our playing."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NeverForget 3/28/2021 7:49:58 AM (No. 737274)
Let's get rid of all European languages too. Not even Orwellian Newspeak would be acceptable as it has its roots in English.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
dolphin 3/28/2021 7:51:09 AM (No. 737275)
It is time to reclaim all schools.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 3/28/2021 8:01:52 AM (No. 737283)
Re: Reply 5: medicine. Why are most pills we take white? Isn't that racist? Pills should be black, brown and yellow. :>)
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While they are at it, why not burn all their books in their library since the printing press was invented by a white person.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
KatieJo 3/28/2021 8:05:47 AM (No. 737287)
I heard recently in a podcast that the CIA sponsored rap and hip hop artists back in the '80's that would produce anti-cop and anti-American ideologies. I thought nothing would surprise me anymore but this did. I did my own research, and sure enough:
"John Homeston, a retired CIA agent, admitted in 2017 on National Russian Television that the CIA was behind the creation of the 1980s hip hop scene and financed major hip hop acts. The retired CIA agent claims the social engineering maneuver was “extremely successful.”
“We understood at the time that music was a powerful means of propaganda to reach the youth,” explained the 77-year-old man.
“Our mission was to use teenage angst to our advantage and turn Generation X into a decadent, pro-drug and anti-establishment culture that would create uprisings and further division within society. We even infiltrated mainstream radio to promote their music and reach millions of people everyday,” he admitted, visibly proud of the accomplishment."
The seeds to every sickening, degenerate, destructive trend in this country have been sown by "our" own corrupt and wicked government to further the destruction of our society. Without the intervention of God Almighty, we don't stand a chance. These people have much to answer for and should be punished in the most severe fashion imaginable.
Notice, it was Russian media that ran the story. I have no doubt whatsoever that the US media is a tool of the demonic CIA.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/28/2021 8:08:06 AM (No. 737291)
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It is sad when institutions of higher learning are run by people who are challenged in timing their shoes.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/28/2021 8:11:20 AM (No. 737296)
#11, my husband bought a turntable last year and started buying LPs at antique stores and flea markets.
I guess that blacks and SJW whites don’t realize that, once everything is racist, nothing is racist. But I do like the idea of all POC’s (I hate that term) being denied ownership or use of anything invented by white people. #11’s list is just the beginning and the list is almost endless.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/28/2021 8:27:08 AM (No. 737314)
Reminds me of that old joke about Yo-yo Ma giving up the cello to become a rapper and changing his name to Yo Mama.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 3/28/2021 8:32:05 AM (No. 737319)
Mao and the Gang of Four would be so proud.
The Cultural Revolution is here, including public shaming.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/28/2021 8:33:29 AM (No. 737321)
It appears 'Sloppy Bad Art' has infested the music at Universities...random notes, no rhythm, no context and everything is off key. Keep it up Lefties, you're on a roll!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mizzmac 3/28/2021 8:42:28 AM (No. 737337)
I'm guessing there's no sheet music for "music" like WAP. Watch as the cancel culture cancels...culture.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
downnout 3/28/2021 8:43:00 AM (No. 737338)
How am I supposed to play a piano without sheet music? Use a slide projector and project notes on the wall?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/28/2021 8:46:15 AM (No. 737341)
For those of you who want to preserve your music, you can do what my youngest son does.
He somehow downloads songs onto his smart phone, bought a device for 20 dollars, links it to the car radio, using an FM frequency otherwise unused, and plays his music. And it also works in the house, on a regular radio.
If you already knew about this method, it just shows how old and out of touch I have become, that I would be amazed by the technology.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/28/2021 9:04:45 AM (No. 737362)
I frankly don't perceive anything racist in saying "That's white of you". I guess I am one of those Asians who have compromised with White Supremacy to get ahead!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/28/2021 9:07:12 AM (No. 737370)
If you wish to irrritate blacks with music play some Bluegrass.
It drives them up the wall.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/28/2021 9:08:33 AM (No. 737372)
No need for sheet music when all you read and write is rap crap. Just stretch a cured zebra skin over a wooden frame or dry out some seed pods and you are in business. Funnily enough, Slick WIllie, a famous boy from Arkansas, received his communist indoctrination at Oxford.
Perhaps the Brits would like to change their history as well and have Lord Carnarvon surrender to the Zulus at Isandlwana.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Judy W. 3/28/2021 9:27:38 AM (No. 737394)
Well, there's the end of Oxford's music departments. And probably the choirs too. What serious or amateur musician or singer wants to drop all the beloved classical pieces and hymns in favor of what -- hip-hop? jungle drums? Chinese music? -- what does Oxford consider acceptable? Do they believe that non-western students are unable to learn to read standard musical notation? What about the many students from third-world countries who love and sometimes perform western classical music? This is a really stupid and ignorant move.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
red1066 3/28/2021 9:44:27 AM (No. 737417)
I guess the paper the notes are written on is too white.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/28/2021 10:01:33 AM (No. 737442)
Musicians can read music notation on iPads, but what happens when the power goes off or the battery power is out??
Is this the equivalent of book burning?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Luandir 3/28/2021 10:13:00 AM (No. 737451)
First it was objective mathematics, now musical notation. Next, the written word.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/28/2021 10:30:40 AM (No. 737465)
How many people want to see Beethoven and Mozart canceled? How many people want to see rap canceled? Case closed.
The University of Oxford is a place of higher education? Sure could fool me. How stupid and dishonest can they get? Don't answer that. The pits of stupidity and dishonest are bottomless.
People go to college to receive an education, not a political indoctrination. If the colleges fail to provide, it makes an opportunity for someone else.
There is always a market for quality music. Again someone will provide.
God willing, the left and all their machinations will end up in the trash bin of history.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/28/2021 10:49:01 AM (No. 737477)
Stupid! Groveling with a race that would be nothing but food for lions and tigers. They only excel in sporting because they run and jump high to avoid being eaten by animals in the jungles. Yes Oxford you go get woke all you want you are being used by a group of communist on the move and a minority.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/28/2021 10:53:34 AM (No. 737485)
Tell that to Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Jelly Roll Morton, etc.
But then when asked "Do you read music" Robert Johnson was said to have replied "Not enough to hurt my playing."
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Boni 3/28/2021 12:31:51 PM (No. 737577)
The posters here that have been buying Cds are right. Buy Cds, Dvds of movies that are bound to be deemed too racist to ever show again and books - lots and lot of books - go to Half Price Books or Bookman's (in the west). I tried to buy some simple card games for a little girl who cannot play outside because of a chronic illness and discovered that the Old Maid game is no longer sold because it is offensive.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
marbles 3/28/2021 12:35:11 PM (No. 737583)
Please excuse the 2nd post
My people were slaves in Egypt over 3300 years ago.They have been forcibly scattered across the known world, routinely blamed for the worlds problems, burned at the stake in so called civilized countries denied working in many fields, which how they got into banking ( money lending was considered a filthy business),denied an education which is why so many left Eastern Europe, and there were the horrors of nazi Germany. All through the centuries the Jews kept on going and creating.They are a feisty group with good reason. They kept on going and world had benefited from their advances in medicine, science, music and art. You can complain and blame other people for your failures or you keep on going and do all that you can despite the roadblocks set against you and not turn yourself and your people into professional victims.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
cThree 3/28/2021 1:17:14 PM (No. 737630)
The "staff raise concerns"?
Have the clefs been heard from? I know one of them is always causing treble.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 3/28/2021 1:24:35 PM (No. 737639)
utter racist lunacy!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/28/2021 3:01:16 PM (No. 737720)
While we're at it,....Let's get rid of books, images, recordings, all knowledge progress, facts and history.
Let's all be stupid, illiterate, blind, deaf, ignorant morons and stupid savages.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/28/2021 3:16:43 PM (No. 737731)
The great guitarist and band of John Nitzinger of Fort Worth, Texas had this to say about Rap "music (?)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaUHA88DuFE
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
4Justice 3/28/2021 4:36:23 PM (No. 737770)
Reading music has nothing to do with race OP. That is an ignorant statement. I truly hope you are kidding. Still, it is offensive just the same.
Anyway, this is more phony garbage from the leftists/fascists trying to destroy our history and achievements in order to create their totalitarian state.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/28/2021 7:22:25 PM (No. 737851)
One of these days, the whites and hispanics are going to say, blacks, enough is enough. And blacks, go sit down and catch your breath and everything will be all right.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 3/28/2021 8:48:36 PM (No. 737886)
Stalin and The Old Deluder must be having a party in Hell. Their work has achieved more than they could ever dream of... or maybe it's everything they dreamed of.
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Comments:
Africans cannot read musical notation, nor can they comprehend classical music, so into the trash it goes. Aren't the Brits accommodating? Mollify and grovel before people from alien cultures who hate them. Meanwhile, violent nightmares like South Africa and Zimbabwe show what happens when the white devil hands the keys over to their new masters.