Let’s admit it: we love to talk about individual achievement in music.
“You know this guy played the fastest.”
“Yeah, but that one played the highest, and THAT ONE was the loudest!”
This conversation never ends.
But what does the group know that the individual doesn’t?
What does the body know that the mind doesn’t?
What about group consciousness?
What about ritual?
What would the Greek geometer Euclid say?
What would Milford Graves say?
This Monday on Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, musical thinker Henry Schroy, are going to crack this one open. We will visit Maranhão in Northeastern Brazil, home of the undersung annual festival of Bumba meu boi, a shamanic ritual of sacred rhythms and sometimes manic street frenzy.
So please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position. Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened. Turbulence is expected, followed by total communion.
Monday (9/28) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org,
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Photo credit: Boi_Garantido – Yesydrodriguez, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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