Oxford University Ponders Scrapping Sheet Music It Finds “Too Colonial” – IOTW Report

Oxford University Ponders Scrapping Sheet Music It Finds “Too Colonial”

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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.  

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