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 MusicWoke 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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