Comments on: Why follow the shoots when you can have the root? http://savageminds.org/2007/12/23/why-follow-the-shoots-when-you-can-have-the-root/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 11:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kerim http://savageminds.org/2007/12/23/why-follow-the-shoots-when-you-can-have-the-root/comment-page-1/#comment-156675 Kerim Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:13:55 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/12/23/why-follow-the-shoots-when-you-can-have-the-root/#comment-156675 I thought it was interesting that they came to Judiasm by way of the renegade Protestantism of the Malakites, so I'm not surprised that their music also shows similar influences. Can you recommend any tunes in particular? The songs are available as digital downloads from Amazon, but I don't want the whole album... I thought it was interesting that they came to Judiasm by way of the renegade Protestantism of the Malakites, so I’m not surprised that their music also shows similar influences.

Can you recommend any tunes in particular? The songs are available as digital downloads from Amazon, but I don’t want the whole album…

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2007/12/23/why-follow-the-shoots-when-you-can-have-the-root/comment-page-1/#comment-156532 Rex Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:15:50 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/12/23/why-follow-the-shoots-when-you-can-have-the-root/#comment-156532 I've listened to this CD and I have to admit that it does sound very cool (although a bit strophic for my tastes). As a church musician, though, I was struck by how much of the 'Adon Olam' sounded like the reworked protestant hymns. This is not to say that it is not 'African' or not 'traditional' or not 'traditional African music' or not -- Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica _is_ a Methodist hymn after all -- but that there's rather more mediation by the 'shoots' of the 'root' then may at first be apparent to some listeners. But then again a lot of protestant hymns are reworked Jewish texts like the psalms... which are reworked Ugaritic texts... I’ve listened to this CD and I have to admit that it does sound very cool (although a bit strophic for my tastes). As a church musician, though, I was struck by how much of the ‘Adon Olam’ sounded like the reworked protestant hymns. This is not to say that it is not ‘African’ or not ‘traditional’ or not ‘traditional African music’ or not — Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrica _is_ a Methodist hymn after all — but that there’s rather more mediation by the ‘shoots’ of the ‘root’ then may at first be apparent to some listeners.

But then again a lot of protestant hymns are reworked Jewish texts like the psalms… which are reworked Ugaritic texts…

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