The Bible and Music

The professor switched gears from talking about passion and artists authenticity to music around the world.

He showed us a song, and we had to guess where it was from. He then emphasized that key markers are not just the language they speak/sing in, but also the instruments. For example, the first song was in spanish, but it clearly was not from Spain because of the presence of the pan flute, so it had to be from some where in South America. I also felt like how they were all singing as well. I do not know how explain it but the tone and mood, were similar to some songs we listened to in my spanish class in high school during our cultural unit.

After we listened to few more songs from other places like Ireland, he concluded on this interesting point: there are similarities from culture to culture because we all originated from a particular area, but distance provides cultures its variation. Some instruments from culture to culture are similar but over time they developed variation as people settled in different areas.