Thursday, April 01, 2021

Bruce Bawer: Now the Woke Have Come for Sheet Music [brief]

By An Old Friend
Wed, Mar 31, 2021 5:17 p.m.

Bruce Bawer: Now the Woke Have Come for Sheet Music [brief]

AOF: This is a gem.  Note that Bawer is a homosexual ... but obviously non-"woke."


If the woke have their way, soon we won't have ANY culture to speak of

March 30, 2021


Not all that long ago, the woke iconoclasts assured us that they were only out to topple the statues of Confederate generals. People laughed at then-President Donald Trump when he suggested that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would soon be targeted, too.
Sure enough, Washington and Lincoln were next. Along with Aunt Jemima, Dr. Seuss, Harry Potter, Mr. Potato Head, Churchill and many others.
It seems like only yesterday that everyone was cheering "Hamilton" as a hip-hop masterpiece, a brilliant re-envisioning of American history. Now the mobs are out to bring "Hamilton" down because it celebrates the Founding Fathers — who aren't deplorable just because they owned slaves, mind you, but also because they founded a racist, sexist nation built on stolen land.
In 1993, Tom Hanks was a hero to gays for starring in the AIDS drama "Philadelphia." Now, straight actors are being lambasted for playing gay characters. Only gays should play gays. Only trans people should play trans people.
Cancel culture has often been called Orwellian. But the idea of eliminating musical notation takes us even a step or two past George Orwell. In the dystopian world of "1984," the government of Oceania is busy replacing English with Newspeak, which has a far more limited vocabulary, the idea being that a language less capable of articulating dissent will inhibit dissent itself.
Trying to ban sheet music, however, takes these tendencies to a whole new level of sinister.
To be sure, the Mail article goes on to suggest that Oxford's target isn't musical notation per se, but old music. "Professors," we're told, "are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart," because it's "white European music from the slave period."  

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Biden pardoned Chauvin

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And the big finale...
black lives matter

All together now--April Fools!
-GRA

Anonymous said...

YEP. African drumming don't need none of the dem's notes. We just doo'z it.

Notes? We don't need no stinking notes.