Music
Canadian University Music Society publishes demands to ‘decolonize’ music, including abolishing ‘rudiments of music’ and scales
Queen’s University professors Margaret Walker and Robin Attas wrote a guest editorial for the Canadian Music Society, in which they argue for “decolonizing” music.
In their editorial, addressed “to all who should be concerned,” the co-authors argue that Canada’s music education systems contain “white supremacist and settler colonial structures.”
h/t Marvin
Your Afternoon Musical Interlude
Today is Cinco de Mayo.
It is also Children’s Day.
Today’s selections are from Chingon and Patty Griffin:
Slowing it down a bit with Elizabeth Mitchell’s, “You Are My Sunshine”:
Johnny Rotten blames ‘wokeness’ for US ‘collapse’
In a recent profile with the Times UK, the aging punk rocker decried “cancel culture” and the activists who campaigned to tear down national monuments which they say promote historical racism. The statues include that of Winston Churchill, one of the UK’s most revered prime ministers.
Even virtual concerts are now banned under Ontario lockdown rules
Live concerts haven’t been a thing in Toronto for more than a year now, making it hard to imagine a time when they will be again, especially due to the unimaginable blow the entire industry has taken over the course of the pandemic.
And now, new lockdown restrictions have brought about another hit that seems somewhat nonsensical: the prohibition of virtual concerts livestreamed from floundering local venues.