Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers “will take 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”.
They then hope to “increase accessibility to the folk club scene and take the first step in a process of decolonisation within the folk music canon”.
The project has been awarded £1,485,400 from the taxpayer-funded UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under its “future leaders fellowship’’. It has also been granted extra funds on top of this from bodies such as Research England (which also falls under the remit of UKRI).
Prof Dennis Hayes, director of Academics for Academic Freedom, told The Telegraph: “Journalists will be pleased to know that there will be an endless supply of stories about disciplines being told by universities to ‘decolonise’ and of money being spent on studies of ‘whiteness’ in any and every conceivable subject.
A new toolkit for ‘decolonising’ philosophy in universities dismisses canonical western philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein as ‘dead white males’ who engaged in “armchair theorising” and must now make way for voices from the ‘Global South’.https://t.co/wOsgdTPYa7
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“The reason for this is institutional groupthink in universities. Universities have adopted the need for decolonisation, and the victim hierarchy of intersectional theory, as essential to upholding their inclusive values. This groupthink is a threat to academic freedom. It silences almost all opposition as academics fear being charged with racism if they speak up against being told what to think.
Fay Hield, professor of music at the University of Sheffield, said: “The term decolonisation is often misinterpreted. Our research highlights the different under-recognised communities who have helped to establish cultural life in England. Folk music is a constantly evolving genre, which has taken influences from a diverse range of people over centuries. It is part of the UK’s cultural heritage and should be celebrated. Our aim is to break down the barriers for people to get involved in folk music. Opening up the genre to different audiences will help to sustain the nation’s folk music for decades to come.”
History lecturers at Liverpool University are being urged to "problematise" whiteness and heterosexuality in their teaching — the Russell Group institution's new 'diversity' guidance also proposes compulsory inclusivity training for academic staff.https://t.co/W8SHRj1N9r
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"Decolonizing" is, as always, just another gaslighting term. They want to culturally appropriate (ie colonize) anything and everything that's White culture.
Destroy your culture - then you have no natural defenses against being genocided.
If whites are the only group banned from organizing online (see reddit for example)
And now the genociders are trying to ban them from forming groups in real life.
war is peace
freedom is slavery
colonizing is decolonizing
yup, I feel like they went mask off with this one. There is no such thing as Irish, Welsh, British, French, or Scandinavian culture, just """colonised""" culture.
Of course, it's especially apparent when these things happen in Western Europe where obviously white people never "colonized" it any more than Asians colonized Japan or China, that is their native land.
"White people have no culture" is more than just gaslighting, it's a statement of intent.
So how much money to gentrify rap?
Actually don't bother, you quite literally can't pay some people enough to want to do that.
It doesn't matter how you want to be left alone, they simply won't leave you alone.
I hate the term decolonize. I’d rather hear authentic folk music
It's gaslighting. Inferior and insecure cultures are appropriating White culture.
These are the same faggots who want me to believe doped up niggers invented Jazz.
Blues music is White gospel melodies with dirty lyrics.
This. It's one of the original myths to give blacks something to be proud of.
decolonize the colleges with the tactics they have endorsed.
money laundering.
I look forward to seeing what they do with Mummers.
Speaking as a philosophag, I remember when philosophy departments were going full-pozz and I tried to warn my peers that the bandwagon they were hopping on would eventually destroy their field. I was also disgusted, despite being left-leaning at the time, simply because philosophy, of all fields, is where you're supposed to autistically analyze everything. Philosophy isn't just an abstract subject, it's a commitment to interrogate every belief no matter how cherished, with the understanding that this notion is itself a cherished belief which has to be balanced with other values.
But seeing so many otherwise very intelligent people turn their back on thousands of years of great thinkers who paved the way for Western civilization to reach a peerless level of sophistication, for no other reason than getting swept up in the zeitgeist, all while asserting this zeitgeist with an overwhelming level of smugness, left me disgusted. It's with a combination of bemusement, schaudenfreude, and a dash of pity that I watch many of the same people who condemned me for challenging the bandwagon they hopped on now express dismay because I was right, and they now carry themselves with an air of disenchantment and defeat, having been humbled by the very creatures they enabled.
Ultimately though this is a bittersweet "victory" because I wish I was wrong, the level of nihilism our civilization has descended to wherein the greatest intellectual legacy the world has ever known can just be unceremoniously tossed aside, to die with a whimper rather than a bang, is existentially horrifying. Nietzsche was right about the death of God inevitably leading us down the path of a nihilistic dark age, and it falls on the very few based humanities fags (like yours truly) to take up the role of Hari Seldon.
How about instead of deleting all the Euro-folk music, just ADD TO THE FUCKING LIBRARY?
1.5m? Bargain.
They're trying to discover secret black people as if black people are Ancient Aliens.
Statement: "White people have no culture."
Observation: culture is found to exist
Conclusion: "Must have been the blacks somehow!"
Result: tax money flows from the regime to its approved sinecures
Perhaps the only semi-good news is that most of this money is just being embezzled, and not spent on anti-white race-hatred.
small blessings.
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That whole 2nd & 3rd paragraph.
But it is true that the miscegenationists were the first to use the "can't help who you love" excuse. And the rainbow symbology was also first used by the black-led Rainbow Coalition. It started with niggers.
Rainbow symbology comes from the Queer Revolutionary Movement, which derives from Queer Theory, which originates from the French Intellectual movement. Almost the entire thing originates among only a handful of Frenchmen.
"Can't help who you love' is a point of rhetorical warfare by the Queer Revolutionary Movement, in order to get around the claim that sexual attraction was inherent, and was therefore unfair to regulate, in order to do an end-run around anti-sodomy laws using 'Equal Protection" doctrine, specifically within the US.
"Miscegination" is a completely different concept, and had different arguments against it. Particularly was the fact that 'miscegination' was not the abnormal position, particularly in the US (or soon to be American territories). Marriage laws were typically religiously set, rather than legally set, and most marriages allow different race marriages, but set stricter guidelines along religious differences. Conversion may be required, or the children may have to be raised under the religion to recognize it. This is why American pioneers, French settlers, and Spanish conquerors had effectively no demand to restrict marriages outside of race. It was actually an importation of Anglo Supremacism and Anglicanization doctrines that were adapted into the US. Segregationism was the imposition, not the default.
As such, the argument for why inter-racial marriage should exist has been a counter-argument: "Why should it not?". It's not "you can't help who you love", that was never really part of any argument leading up to Loving v. Virginia. That argument resides within the Queer Revolutionary movement. The primary argument for marriage integration was that there wasn't any valid justification to forbid it, let alone imprison people for it, and further harm children for it by imprisoning their parents and destroying families.
British folk music is white.
American folk music has plenty of black people in it.
I doubt that.
No, he's right. American folk music was influenced by a combination of a lot of different traditional music, including African slave music. A specific example is Lead Belly who heavily influenced modern music. He was covered by bands like CCR, Nirvana, and The Beach Boys.
I’m not referring to modern music brother. Curt Cobain is not folk music. Current day music is not organic. Punk rock was half organic, pub rock is 3/4 organic. Grunge is a meme pushed by record companies..
You're not hearing him. Tons of Rock & Roll artists do covers of famous folk songs from 90 years ago, many of which were put out by black artists.
This is because Folk music is where almost all modern American music originates. Plenty of that folk music is white, but tons of it is black as well. As he said, "Negro Spirituals" were extremely popular and were adapted multiple times. So was blues.
Hell, in many cases, Minstrel Tunes were white people, forming 'black' bands, preforming knock-off versions of of those same spirituals.
If you don't believe me that black music existed and was popular in fold, please consult the primary sources which will cite it to you.
I'm not referring to modern music either.....
I'm pointing out that modern music was heavily influenced by Lead Belly, an American Folk musician from the 1930s and 40s, who was influenced by African slave songs.
American Folk music was influenced by a lot of different types of folk music, including African folk music. To deny that is just retarded.
That is a bit muddy. Most folk music is not mixed. I'd rather just remove such influences from my life. I'm divorcing myself from what I don't care about culturally.
Yeah man.