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Hindustani Music, Music History, Colonial history, Indian History, Literature. 🇵🇸 🇮🇳
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Please sign and share as widely as possible: c.org/WxNbqBS9g2
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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13500. Incredible support within just a week. But we need to keep the momentum going. Please sign if you haven’t and share widely. Tell a friend and get them to share too.

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Hello! Thank you so much for signing this petition, we are nearly at 13,500 signatures which is incredible seeing as it was started just over a week ago! Please keep sharing the petition, it is paramo...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The petition has crossed 5k. But we need more momentum and support. Please sign and share widely.
#appeal #saveUoNMusic #Nottingham
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges. The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Enchanted to have interviewed the living legend Ustad Irfan Muhammad Khansahab.

Here’s a clip of him talking about his wonderful mother.
May 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Rutgers bans caste-based discrimination across all campuses!

Rutgers also outlines further steps for reporting, collecting more data about caste on campus, and developing trainings.

This took a lot of work & is a big win for caste equity! laborrelations.rutgers.edu/updates-anno... #caste #Rutgers
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January 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This exciting new art exhibition at Somerset House explores the iniquitous colonial salt tax. The artists, Hylozoic Desires, have drawn inspiration in part from my work on a powerful courtesan, Mayalee, who defied the British at Sambhar Salt Lake in the 1830s. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Somerset House to reveal the restored ‘Salt Stair’ after fire renovations
London landmark puts symbol of empire at the centre of a new exhibition exploring colonial taxes on commodity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Zakir Hussain shall ALWAYS be. Past tense shall never touch him. So long as a tabla plays somewhere in this world, Zakir Hussain is.
December 15, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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December 14, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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The Afghan rabab has FINALLY been recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage! amu.tv/141402/
UNESCO recognizes Rubab as cultural heritage for Afghanistan, neighbors | Amu TV
Rubab is one of the oldest musical instruments in Central, South, and Southwest Asia.
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December 4, 2024 at 9:51 PM