‘Decolonisation’ Is Being Used Drive Classical Music out of the Curriculum: Professor

Decolonisation amounts to a radical attack on most forms of Western knowledge whose adherents see classical music as an expression of a colonial perspective, according to a professor of music. Speaking to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, Professor Ian Pace from City, University of London, a renowned music academic, explained why he is taking on the woke beliefs that are hampering freedom of speech at universities. Mr. Pace is a founding member of London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom, Britain’s first council to support academic freedom in higher education. He said the organisation was needed to “counter the effect of movements” such as gender identity ideology, decolonisation, and critical race theory, issues that have grown in the last five or six years....