Music soothe's the savage beast, and some music brings forth the beast. In the 50's fundamental Christian opinions of the Jazz of Count Basse, were that it was the music of Satin. His African tour brought an Oregonian article that held the dance and music were horrific violations of Christian Moral's. Remember, that it was only 1952 that the liberal Methodist Church Unified to allow "negro's" the liberal phraseology of the times, and hundreds of years of separation of races was abolished. A few years later, Brown versus the board of education would upend the racism of 175 years, plus 120 years of colonial slavery.
The truth is not a political discourse, but a sonic phenomena that we have observed for centuries but still don't understand hardly any aspect of the sonic influence of the nervous system, the endocrine and transmitter systems, the cellular resonance and cell membrane/firmament and telomere affects. We know that lullaby's often calm down infants, and that happy songs often lift up children and older people. But what do we understand about the vibratory mitrication of sonic and ultrasonic exposure. The fact that rhythm and music grab our bodies and minds is an evidence that music is a food for the soul and the body. We are drawn to ripe peaches, strawberries, sweet confections, and other foods of the body by our instincts and tastes, so being drawn to dance, sing and join in can be easily accepted as a need of humans, maybe not for strong bones, but for optimum health.
Just as rhythm and music are natural, and attractive to most people, silence is even more important in living life to its fullest. Philosophy is said to have originated in ancient Greece. The love of knowledge held a paramount importance to Plato, Pythagoras and Socrates and they felt that you had to treat your body as a sacred temple, seek truth and live simply. Krishna, Pythagoras, Jesus and Henry David played the flute. music is a language in and of itself, with still mysterious influences on the human body and psyche. Lyrics are somewhat duplicitous in music, but communicate to the dull, who cannot hear the entire story in the nelody.
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