Oxford University staff propose to 'rethink' teaching sheet music because of its 'complicity in white supremacy'

Staff at the University of Oxford have taken the Black Lives Matter movement to heart, and as such have proposed that the university consider a "rethink" sheet music, notation, and classical music. This information was uncovered by the Telegraph, which reached out to Oxford for comment. At the time their story was published, Oxford had not replied. However, the AP reached out to Oxford, and Oxford said that "It has been incorrectly reported that the University is considering removing sheet music from its curriculum. This is completely incorrect and no such proposal or suggestion has been made about sheet music or western musical notation." Musical notation, the Telegraph reported, is now considered "too colonial," while Beethoven and Mozart, and music curriculums in general, are believed by professors to have "complicity in white supremacy." Arguments against the music, which is one of the greatest achievements of western civilization, arose not just from activist students but from …