Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture

A music professor has resigned in protest at the move to decolonise curriculums and the “no platforming” of academics.

Paul Harper-Scott, 43, who taught musical history and theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, said that he had become profoundly disillusioned at how increasingly dogmatic universities were becoming, with cancel culture seemingly “endemic”.

He said that music departments could stop teaching Beethoven and Wagner because their compositions were produced during a time of empire “in the frankly insane belief that doing so will somehow materially improve current living conditions for the economically, socially, sexually, religiously, or racially underprivileged”.

In a post on his blog titled “Why I left academia”, Harper-Scott wrote that music departments should recognise classical music’s “great importance of social history” which

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