Based on press information, a group of teachers at the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford in England plans to remove from the curriculum classical composers branded as "white colonialists", so Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Joseph Haydn, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, may be banned. All this may happen under the pressure of the radical left-wing Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
The British The Telegraph wrote recently that, based on information, a group of teachers at Oxford University's Faculty of Music - who sympathize with the radical left-wing Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement - are planning to remove the works of composers labeled as "white colonialists" from the curriculum . , because they created during the period of slavery.
According to the draft, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Bach would not be part of the curriculum in the future either, as they represent "white supremacy", and under pressure from the BLM, the curriculum must be "deconstructed" and "decolonized", which according to radical leftist teachers "excessively Eurocentric", in other words excessively "Western-centric", therefore - according to their opinion - it does not give space to composers with a different cultural tradition, for example black composers, and this can cause anxiety among students of color , of whom there are an increasing number at Oxford University.
Many people also find it retrograde that the musical canon has not essentially changed since about 1900, and that in the case of classical music since then white European authors such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) or the German Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) from Saxony. Milos Forman's 8 Oscar-winning masterpiece, Amadeus - about the dramatic and short life of Mozart. Pictured is Tom Hulce, the title character
Classical music has long been a target of the radical left. The city demanded more black and female composers from the Philadelphia Philharmonic, and a performance of the opera Carmen was rescheduled, saying that in the twenty-first century you can't just kill a woman. And the intendant of the Paris Opera reflected on the fact that Tchaikovsky's ballets or A Bayadér are not suitable for the repertoire, because one way or another, they promote white supremacy.
Of course, it didn't just start. In California, Western civilization courses were canceled 30-40 years ago because it is too white, pictures of Nobel prize-winning professors at Harvard Medical School were taken down from the walls because they are white dead men, and leading New York liberal magazines have been writing ever since that classical music it is too white and the American Society for Medieval Studies is only willing to deal with colorful subjects.
Source: Origo.hu
Featured Image: Milos Forman: Amadeus - About the Dramatic and Short Life of Mozart. Pictured is Tom Hulce, the title character
