HOW DO WE TRANSMIT MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT NOTATION?

What is that Orwell line about some ideas being so goofy only an academic might believe them?  "[P]rofessors at Oxford University are advocating a ban on the use of sheet music as well as an end to the curricular focus on classical European composers—lest the institution continue to be complicit in 'white supremacy.'"  Maybe you have to live in the rarefied air of Oxford to think such things; they're made of sterner stuff at Worcester's Holy Cross.  "Additionally, if sheet music is white supremacy, then successful black composers like André Thomas, Rosephanye Powell, Ysaye Barnwell, and Andraé Crouch would also be complicit. There is a place in the university to learn about different musical traditions across the world that don’t use notation, but saying that sheet music is a form of white supremacy is just ridiculous."

Not to mention that if you're going to show the versatility of the steel pan by arranging other sorts of compositions for it, it helps to have the sheet music.