Contribution

There is no way I will be able to post more than this today, but I did want to contribute even just a thought.

My thought is this:

What is the connection between music and cultural identity? Why is it that there is Indian music and Irish music and that there are not universal musical styles, if not timing schemes.

I remember learning that the Catholic church outlawed certain notes and chords as deviant, and that the Arabs who taught me the Arab beat on the guitar told me there were certain timings intended to put you closer to God.

I have noted on several occasions, and in these hallowed silos of silica information repositories, that the language a culture uses to speak can act as a window into its thought processes. I have been told by managers who hire for big banks that a clear communicator is assumed to be a clear thinker. What does our nonverbal communication say about our collective selves?

What about a heterogeneous society like the U.S. where segments of the population identify themselves by the music they assume, and from that, common fashion trends emerge, co-habitational living (in the case of Burning Man), and a complete culture is prepared to propogate itself to France!

But seriously, what do you think?