University in the UK Awarded Taxpayer Funds to Decolonize ‘White-Centricity’ in English Folk Music
“Time and time again, these institutions force hard-pressed households to pay millions for academics to rewrite history and achieve minute goals in return.”
This is so ridiculous. The left is on a mission to destroy anything they see as insufficiently diverse. Scroll to the bottom of this post for an excellent example of English folk music.
Breitbart News reports:
University Granted £1.5 Million in Taxpayer Money to Decolonise ‘White-Centricity’ of English Folk Music
Woke academics have been granted nearly £1.5 million in taxpayer money to study the “white-centricity” of English folk music and how to “decolonise” the art form.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are set to embark on an “unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England,” according to a report from The Telegraph.
The stated aim of the project will be to “increase accessibility to the folk club scene and take the first step in a process of decolonisation within the folk music canon”.
The academics have been granted £1,485,400 from the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) “Future Leaders fellowship’’, which is funded by the British taxpayer.
The move by the UKRI to use taxpayer money to fund woke endeavours was criticised by the TaxPayer’s Alliance, with investigations campaign manager Joanna Marchong saying: “Taxpayers are fed up with research councils marching to the beat of their own drum and ignoring all concerns for value for money.
“Time and time again, these institutions force hard-pressed households to pay millions for academics to rewrite history and achieve minute goals in return.
As promised, here is an example of the type of music they are talking about. The band is ‘Pentangle’ and the video is a 1972 performance of the traditional song ‘Willie o Winsbury.’ It’s a beautiful rendition.
This description of the story told by the song from Wikipedia is accurate:
A king is away for some time. His daughter becomes pregnant by the hero, William or Thomas. The king threatens to hang him, but is struck by his beauty and offers him his daughter’s hand, gold, and land. The hero agrees to marry the king’s daughter but declares the gold and the land to be hers, not his own.
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DECOLONIZE the sciences !
AfroChemistry. The science of Black Life Matter.
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In the new, decolonized version, WIllie and the king take turns slapping the princess silly; then they turn her out on the crossroads of the land to bring them back more gold.
If they are serious about decolonization of English folk songs, then here is a list of items to eliminate:
1) Western music is based on a defined set of scales which clearly is colonialism. Any new music cannot rely on the Western tonal music keys.
2) The instruments that are used to play western music, such as the acoustic and electric guitar, violin, cello, bass, all brass instruments, woodwind instruments such as the clarinet, oboe, the flute and piccolo, snare drums, are all clearly colonial and cannot be used.
3) Music cannot be printed or recorded because that is colonial.
4) The songs for English folk songs cannot be sung in English because that is colonial
5) No electronic amplification can be used because that is colonial.
6) The costumes cannot be made with synthetic fibers or dyes because that is colonial.
7) It would colonial if the performers (and the audience) took baths, brushed their teeth more frequently than once a month. Any hair trimming must be done with non-ferric knives because otherwise that would be colonial.
8) There can be no indoor toilet facilities for the performers or the audience as that would be colonial.
9) Any food that is consumed on the premise must be either dried, harvested or butchered and roasted that day and cannot be eaten with utensils otherwise that would be colonial.
10) The performance facility cannot be made with concrete, or steel, or provide any electric lighting and air-conditioning because that would be colonial. Lighting with candles or whale oil is prohibited as this also colonial. Heat can only be provided by a fire of cow dung.
Other than that we hope that you will enjoy the performance.
and paying any black artists/performers also not allowed
as capitalism is,, according to lefty,,evil
I was just at the musical instrument museum. The entire second floor was broken down by country, not instrument.
As a result most countries were the same. I did notice several Asian countries featured the electric guitar as one of their national instruments.
A reminder. The LGBTQWERTY folks do have a claim on colonialism by the Irish.
The faeries were the first people chased out of Eire by their successors, after all.
And, of course English folk music is “white” – it was written by Angles, Saxons, and Normans. (Yeah, probably some Romans in there, too.)
Those ancient primitive tribes would have a hoot hearing their descendants say they were all on the same team because their skin was ‘white.’
Let them have their own “club folk scene(s)” built and paid for by themselves. The problem isn’t that these other cultures are bad, but that they should be building their own stuff with their own effort and money if they want it their way, not taking over what others built.
Can we remove black influence on gospel, jazz and blues music? (no, nobody cares about rap “music”)
Just to make it all “equitable” of course…