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Monday, March 29, 2021
Oxford University wants to cancel musical notation - Andrea Widburg
by Andrea Widburg
It’s difficult to believe that this story is real but it seems to be
One
of the things about living in a totalitarian society is that, once
something has been identified as problematic, everyone ends up competing
to attack in the most aggressive way. Fail to do so, and you may find
yourself being the next person identified as problematic. Perhaps that
explains why the University of Oxford, founded in 1096, is contemplating
ending sheet music because it’s part of white supremacy.
To
be honest, it’s a little bit hard to make sense of the story because
it’s so screamingly stupid. Apparently, music professors are claiming
that all Western classical music has “complicity in white supremacy.”
This seems to include such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and
Handel, all of whom were living in continental Europe in the 17th
through 19th centuries and none of whom had anything whatsoever to do
with Blacks, Africa, or the slave trade.
University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.
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'.
A
couple of comments. First, this strikes me as being profoundly
insulting to “students of colour,” who are presumably so dull-witted and
hypersensitive that they are incapable of coping with anything from the
past. The reality is that Africans have been enslaving each other since
time immemorial because all people enslaved each other.
The
only ones to break from this idea were the Jews (think Passover, the
celebration of the world’s first slave revolt). It took the Christian
world until the late 18th century to catch up with that idea. The Muslim
world still hasn’t. The reality is that slavery has always been part of
the human condition and it’s only because of White Jews and Christians
(with or without musical notation) that it ended in the West.
Second,
I think the Oxford music teachers know this is bunkum. They’re raising
it only because they feel that, unless they chime in on the Black Lives
Matter issue and show themselves to be on board with it, they will be
the next target. Under the tyranny that is BLM, if you’re not with them,
you’re against them, and if you’re against them, you will be destroyed
in the next purge (and there’s always a next purge).
As
I watch the endless waves of BLM stupidity in corporations and academic
institutions in the English-speaking world, I’m reminded of nothing so
much as the mourners at Kim Jong-il’s funeral. They knew that the secret
police were watching and that anyone showing insufficient grief was at
risk of being carted off to a concentration camp. That’s why you see
videos such as the one below showing thousands of people engaged in
hysterical weeping. Yes, they were told that their communist godhead had
died, but what you’re seeing in these videos isn’t grief, it’s fear:
That
same stench of totalitarian fear is, quite disgracefully, oozing out of
Oxford. An institution with over a thousand years of solid academics
behind it shouldn’t be groveling before the Marxist BLM thugs.
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