{"id":53603,"date":"2020-08-25T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rule-britannia-bbc-ditches-singalong-amid-colonial-rethink\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:01:00","slug":"rule-britannia-bbc-ditches-singalong-amid-colonial-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rule-britannia-bbc-ditches-singalong-amid-colonial-rethink\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rule, Britannia! BBC ditches singalong amid colonial rethink"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rule, Britannia! BBC ditches singalong amid colonial rethink<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 25, 2020 |<\/span> 2:01pm <\/p>\n

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\n LONDON \u2014 The BBC has ditched the lyrics of \u201cRule, Britannia!\u201d for its traditional end-of-summer concert amid a debate over the song\u2019s celebration of the British Empire at a time when critics are reevaluating the nation\u2019s colonial past.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s publicly funded broadcaster said late Monday that the final night of its Proms concert series<\/a> would feature instrumental versions of \u201cRule, Britannia!\u201d and another patriotic mainstay, \u201cLand of Hope and Glory,\u201d instead of traditional singalongs.<\/p>\n

The BBC statement didn\u2019t directly address the controversy, but said the decision reflected \u201cthis extraordinary year\u201d and the fact that there will be no live audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics accused the broadcaster of caving in to political correctness and pressure from social<\/a> justice campaigners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBC will allow the tune to be played but not sung, thereby offending all shades of opinion all the time,\u201d music critic and author Norman Lebrecht wrote in a blog post after the BBC announced the program for the Sept. 12 concert. \u201cThere is no excuse for such cowardice. At least one BBC head should roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

The controversy arose Sunday when the Sunday Times news<\/a>paper reported that the BBC was considering scrapp<\/a>ing the songs amid concerns about their \u201cperceived association with colonialism and slavery.\u201d Dalia Stasevska, the 35-year-old Finn who will conduct the concert, was seeking to modernize the event and reduce the \u201cpatriotic elements,\u2019\u2019 the newspaper said, without citing a source for the information.<\/p>\n

The BBC on Monday rejected the \u201cunjustified personal attacks\u201d on Stasevska and said the changes in the program were made by the corporation after consulting all the artists involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Proms will reinvent the Last Night in this extraordinary year so that it respects the traditions and spirit of the event whilst adapting to very different circumstances at this moment in time,\u2033 the BBC said.<\/p>\n

Late Tuesday, it issued a second statement saying that the lyrics would return to the program in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Proms is an annual series of summer concerts that was created in 1895 and has been organized by the BBC since 1927. The final night has traditionally featured a triumphant emotional singalong of patriotic songs like \u201cRule, Britannia!\u201d It\u2019s a flag-waving fixture on the calendar and is seen as an expression of national pride in Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cRule, Britannia!\u201d was first performed in 1740 when Britain, backed by the might of the Royal Navy, was building an empire that stretched from India to South Africa and Jamaica. While the empire is long gone, it remains embedded in the song\u2019s lyrics, which suggest Britain was created at \u201cHeaven\u2019s command\u201d and end with the rousing chorus:<\/p>\n

\u201cRule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never, never, never will be slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kehinde Andrews, a professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, said the line represented racist propaganda at a time when Britain was the world\u2019s leading slave-trading nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf dropping racist propaganda from taxpayer-funded TV is controversial, then there is no hope for the serious work that needs to be done to address racism,\u201d Andrews tweeted.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waded into the controversy, saying that he couldn\u2019t believe the BBC had made such a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general<\/a> fight of self-recrimination and wetness,\u2033 Johnson said. \u201cI wanted to get that off my chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Proms debate is just the latest salvo in Johnson\u2019s criticism of the BBC since he took office last year. His Conservative Party has criticized the broadcasting corporation for refusing to fund free TV licenses for people over 75. Senior members of Johnson\u2019s government have refused to appear on the BBC\u2019s flagship morning radio program because of complaints about its alleged liberal bias.<\/p>\n

But the real issue may lie within the BBC, which lacks confidence when dealing with issues involving race, said Trevor Phillips, a former chairman of Britain\u2019s Equalities and Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe principle reason it has no confidence \u2026 is that there is no ethnic diversity at the top of its decision-making tree,\u201d Phillips told Times Radio. \u201cWhat you have is rooms full of white men panicking that someone is going to think they are racist.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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