Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Our heritage of our crimes against humanity
Rhythmic African
Spirituality
Rhythm
and percussions are the basic elements of African music. That was transported
to the Americas by slave trade. The slaves used this rhythmic chanting of
theirs to resist slavery by unifying their work. This led to modern amplified
or non-amplified music like Gospels, Negro Spirituals, Jazz, Soul, Rock, Blues,
and a lot more even beyond this list. I would even say it is one root of
minimalist music. Discover this tremendous cultural revolution with two
American artists and similar rhythmic work in Ancient Berber Songs and Music.
We
need to reexamine slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade to understand the
tremendous development it brought to humanity, though this development was not
intended by the slave traders. The tremendous overexploitation of humans that
was a crime against humanity brought to humanity a phenomenal cultural
transformation. We should re-examine such horrible events, even the Indian
genocide in Northern America and see the subsequent development they brought to
us all, even if negative sequels are still active today. We have to think of
Greece and the Roman Empire that are our direct roots and were slave societies
in which the majority of the population were not free, with incredible games
for the free public with gladiators, mass executions in circuses with lions, and
other wild predators, all kinds of torturing machines, etc. All that thriving
long after the end of the Roman Empire in Europe AND in the Americas under the
authority of European kings and Christian churches. Crucifixion was not less
inhumane than the wheel or lynching. There is a lot of work to do to explore
the positive outlet of these horrific events. Auschwitz turned Europe into a
peaceful continent, more or less.
Publication
Date: 1979
Publication
Name: Medium.com
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:22 AM 
