Trance music

Isaiah Pitka Yupik Mask Do you know how the Yupik Mask was created? There were shamans in the past. Do you know shamans? Shamans are humans with powers living in 2 worlds. Shamans lived in the real world like the world we are living now. Shamans lived in the spiritual world also, its weird how they were part of the little human world, or they were able to talk to things that are growing. Shamans use to talk to trees, water, plants, anything that were in the spiritual world. Shamans had many dreams from one to another and they would see what was in their dream and they would try create what the shamans have seen in their dream. I guess shamans saw masks in their dream and made masks, if the shamans knew how. Some shamans didn’t know how to carve, so they asked people that knew how to carve to carve the masks for them. Masks had parts or things to them that had meanings. The whole mask had stories behind it also. There were many types of masks. There were masks that looked funny, just to make the audience laugh out of their lungs when the dancers with funny masks dance. The scary looking ones were to make the audience get scared while the dancers were using the mask while dancing. Some masks are weirdly created like the half good half bad looking mask. I think that mask was to tell a story about living in two worlds. The story was told in a yupik dance to tell the audience how having two worlds was like. Some masks had really really really really really long stories about…

The representation of Rave and Drug culture from the 1980’s and why it has always been associated together and how this sparks Moral Panics In this essay I will investigate how rave culture caused such a moral panic and why it was (and still is) thought to be so closely linked with drug use, especially the intake of Ecstasy. Techno music (House) and MDMA would both have survived without each other, but their marriage was mutually beneficial; together they gave birth to rave culture. Rave culture…

Traces of the Spirit: The Religious dimensions of Popular Music, by Robin Sylvan, New York University Press: New York, 2002. 291 pages. Reviewed by Christina Coulter. This book was chosen due to its interesting topic. Most of the music covered in class is more traditional music taken from various cultures around the world. This book, on the other hand, covers popular music in America. Its analysis has many interesting points on the effects of music that mirror what we have discussed in class,…

Human and music are a like a friendship that cannot be separate from one to another and has been driven to our daily life. A quote from philosopher called Plato said that music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, fight to the imagination, and life to everything. From this quote show that music gives us a life and there is an alternative medicine that uses music as a treatment called as music therapy and the therapist called as a music therapist. Music therapy gives a treatment that…

In the world of music, no piece quite received quite the same reception as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. As a paganistic approach to the rebirth and celebration of nature, the piece astonished audiences with its forceful and earth-like tones. However, the world premiere induced a massive riot throughout the audience, which rendered the orchestra inaudible. The chaos that ensued angered Stravinsky, who was displeased with humanity as a whole. In the Rite of Spring, Stravinsky expressed the…

members with music and a folk dance from my Parents homeland, it was the Cumbia. The girls donned traditional dress and danced in rhythm to the beat of the drums. This dance brought our elders to tears. It was heartwarming to see the emotion associated with a new generation learning and executing a traditional…

performances of dance, drama and music and as such, ceremonies, festivals and rituals oftentimes comprises of music, dance and theatre. In addition to entertaining and pleasing the gods and ancestors, these theatre and dance performances are presented to demonstrate obedience, to ask favours and to give offerings (Howe, 2006, p. 69). Thus, many theatre performances and dances in Bali are rooted in the ritualistic and the ceremonial (Brandon, 1967, p. 10). This ritualistic nature of the…

concentrate in the Nursing field. Throughout my lifetime, music has definitely developed deep into my soul in which I believe has been pondered by an indirect communication between distinct artists and myself in which I found messages within their songs. Being a college student, listening to music has nearly become a necessity along with an enjoyment due to the countless hours of studying and a major compulsion to temporarily clear my mind and enforce positive thoughts. Growing up, my mother…

In this essay I will investigate the role of healing, music and dance in South Asian Sufism. This is a very relevant subject matter throughout the World as religious groups and tribes utilise the above activities in number of ways. Many religious groups partake in dance and musical activities for enjoyment and improved social life only where as other groups like Sufism do this to affect the human psyche and body. They see this as a way to soothe, incite, excite, distract and even heal one’s…

African-American abstract painters to have a solo exhibit in New York. This showcase, which led to her fame, was a series entitled Blues and Negro Folk Songs and all included pieces were directly linked to blues music or musicians. Slow Down, Freight Train was one of the 14 pieces in the exhibit and it is my belief that this work of art captures the semi-abstract style and then uses its elements to provide the feeling of blues music in a visual way. The semi-abstract school of art is one that…