As I promised in an earlier post that I was going to talk a bit on musi and religion. I wrote a short essay on the subject at The University of California @ Riverside for a Cultural Anthropology class. I found many similarities between the making of musi and religion. It is funny how the two interact and are at the same time different parts of a whole entity. Just as religion tries to find the harmony of God and mankind, musi tries to find the harmony of the Universe and mankind. In the search for God one needs to take into account his finger prints on the Earth, solar system and also the Universe. So in finding that harmony between mankind and that being or Power that is God religion and musi are in the pursuit of the same end. Religion is something that is practiced, in the rituals and rights, religion builds a context in which man and God function. In that same light musi itself is a practice to the people through the harmony of the precision of drums, guitars and voice. Band practice could be seen as a type of ritual and the right of passage between being a nobody to being that stage person who is harmonizing with the crowd.
Interesting interplays between religion and musi if I might say so.
Look into it you can find many similarities if you know what to look for!
Thanks and till next time!
DWDent. 2006'
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