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One might wonder how sheet music can be racist but nevertheless it may be removed from the music curriculum at the University of Oxford in order to “decolonize” the program.
Sheet music has been branded as a “colonialist representational system” by professors in the music department while they are in the process of modifying their musical education offerings.
The notation, which has not “shaken off its connection to its colonial past” would be a “slap in the face” for some students of color, professors stated in proposal for change documents obtained by the news outlet.
Elsewhere in the documents, members of the music faculty reportedly questioned the current curriculum’s “complicity in white supremacy.”
They specifically took issue with the classical collection taught at the school — which includes works by Mozart and Beethoven — alleging it focuses too much on “white European music from the slave period.”
Additionally, the faculty members proposed that certain classical musical skills such as playing the piano and conducting orchestral arrangements should no longer be mandatory, given that these “structurally center white European music,” causing “students of color great distress.”
The changes come in response to the Black Lives Matter movement as the professors who are proposing the changes complained that the school’s “almost all-white faculty” by default gives “privilege to white musics.”
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One might wonder how sheet music can be racist but nevertheless it may be removed from the music curriculum at the University of Oxford in order to “decolonize” the program.
Sheet music has been branded as a “colonialist representational system” by professors in the music department while they are in the process of modifying their musical education offerings.
The notation, which has not “shaken off its connection to its colonial past” would be a “slap in the face” for some students of color, professors stated in proposal for change documents obtained by the news outlet.
Elsewhere in the documents, members of the music faculty reportedly questioned the current curriculum’s “complicity in white supremacy.”
They specifically took issue with the classical collection taught at the school — which includes works by Mozart and Beethoven — alleging it focuses too much on “white European music from the slave period.”
Additionally, the faculty members proposed that certain classical musical skills such as playing the piano and conducting orchestral arrangements should no longer be mandatory, given that these “structurally center white European music,” causing “students of color great distress.”
The changes come in response to the Black Lives Matter movement as the professors who are proposing the changes complained that the school’s “almost all-white faculty” by default gives “privilege to white musics.”