{"id":353358,"date":"2021-03-30T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=353358"},"modified":"2021-03-30T20:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:16:05","slug":"oxford-university-might-scrap-colonialist-musical-notation-from-curriculum-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oxford-university-might-scrap-colonialist-musical-notation-from-curriculum-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University Might Scrap \u2018Colonialist\u2019 Musical Notation From Curriculum: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foxford-university-might-scrap-colonialist-musical-notation-from-curriculum-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=353358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4660.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Professors at Oxford University are reportedly considering removing \u201ccolonialist\u201d Western musical notation from the curriculum in an attempt to purge \u201cwhite hegemony\u201d from the oldest English-speaking university in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcademics are deconstructing the university\u2019s music offering after facing pressure to \u2018decolonise\u2019 the curriculum following the Black Lives Matter protests,\u201d according internal documents obtained by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/03\/27\/musical-notations-branded-colonialist-oxford-professors-hoping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>. Black Lives Matter protests spread to the United Kingdom after engulfing the United States following the death of George Floyd last May.<\/p>\n<p>Professors reportedly claimed that the classical repertoire Oxford teaches, encompassing works from composers such as Mozart and Beethoven, is overly focused on \u201cwhite European music from the slave period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The development of Western music predates the Atlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching notation which has not \u2018shaken off its connection to its colonial past\u2019 would be a \u2018slap in the face\u2019 for some students, documents state, and music-writing studies have been earmarked for rebranding to be more inclusive,\u201d the Telegraph further reported regarding the professors\u2019 discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The academics reportedly further argued that learning musical skills, which has formed a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadrivium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">key part<\/a> of a well-rounded liberal arts education since the Middle Ages, should no longer be compulsory because it&nbsp;\u201cstructurally centres white European music,\u201d which causes \u201cstudents of colour great distress,\u201d the Telegraph said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Oxford maintained in a statement to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/oxford-might-scrap-sheet-music-amid-pressure-address-white-hegemony-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, however, that \u201cthere is no truth in the \u2018sheet music\u2019 claim\u201d and that such reports emerged from the musings of just one professor:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>While retaining (and in no way diminishing) our traditional excellence in the critical analysis, history and performance of the broad range of western art music, we are exploring ways to enhance our students\u2019 opportunities to study a wider range of non-western and popular music from across the world than is currently on offer, as well as music composition, the psychology and sociology of music, music education, conducting, and much more. We look forward to sharing our curriculum in the coming months.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>British author Douglas Murray, who attended Oxford\u2019s Magdalen College, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fox-nation-tucker-carlson-today-douglas-murray-woke-culture-oppression.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his new show \u201cTucker Carlson Today\u201d regarding the politicization of everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole sense of what is important in our society has changed radically and in an ugly direction,\u201d said Murray. \u201cIt makes everything political. It wants to politicize everything. It wants to politicize art. It wants to politicize poetry. All of the things that were meaningful in our lives have been picked up and spun through this cycle of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s boring, it\u2019s ugly, and I think it\u2019s the job of any sensible person to say, \u2018I refute this. I refuse to join in this game. I refuse to have this vision of life. I have a better vision of life and how it should be lived.\u2019 And we should assert that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rapper-lil-nas-x-rolls-out-line-of-bloody-satan-shoes-to-coincide-with-new-song-about-demonic-sex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rapper Lil Nas X Rolls Out Line Of Bloody \u2018Satan Shoes\u2019 To Coincide With New Song About Demonic Sex<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors at Oxford University are reportedly considering removing \u201ccolonialist\u201d Western musical notation from the curriculum in an attempt to purge \u201cwhite hegemony\u201d from the oldest English-speaking university in the world.\u201cAcademics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311425,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4660.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oxford University Might Scrap \u2018Colonialist\u2019 Musical Notation From Curriculum: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4660.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oxford University Might Scrap \u2018Colonialist\u2019 Musical Notation From Curriculum: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}