If you’re way woke, this might be music to your ears.
As indicated by internal documents acquired by The Telegraph, following Black Lives Matter protests, Oxford University is feeling pressure to clean up its act.
Amid the sweep: a decolonizing of curriculum.
And one professor at the world’s oldest English-speaking university has purportedly proposed removing a “colonialist” clunker: Western musical notation.
As it turns out, it would help purge “white hegemony” from the school.
The teacher allegedly asserted that Oxford’s currently-offered classical repertoire which includes works by Beethoven and Mozart is too concentrated on “white European music from the slave period.”
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