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Originally Posted by hevusa
fuck religion/prayer
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thats fine, but that is not the point of this thread
this is a discussion about the
music, not the theology. chanting is the origination of music. without chanting there would be no music. some believe that chanting and singing is the origin of language itself in human beings, and that we used to sing like birds before we evolved our speech. I do not know of any other songs or musical traditions that are as ancient and yet continuous.
When I go to church on sunday we sing a song together that people have been singing for over 1600 years, based upon indigenous African melodies that are perhaps thousands of years old, preserved intact.. can you imagine some pop music lasting that long? Will they be singing elvis or Nirvana or Michael Jackson songs forever? I wonder..