Arabic Music

Edited by Don Quixote - 19-Mar-2012 at 23:59

There is a difference between Turkish and Arabic music though - Turkish music was/is influenced by Byzantinian music, from what I've read; I even read that Turkish music was the inheritor of Ancient Greek music, and preserved Ancient Greek rhythms and moods. I'm quite fond of Turkish music, btw, both Ottoman classical music and folk one; but I know next to nothing about modern pop Turkish music, I have to admit. I'm posting Turkish music on this thread  http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13822&PID=667839#667839
why don't you throw some videos there, or if you want let's open a thread especially for Turkish music, I think it deserves it's own thread.

I agree with you that ethnic music has a serious cultural identification value, I was just saying that I personally want to see it as above-national, psychologically-artistic creation that belongs equally to everyone. I cannot see it another way even if I wanted too, because I'm an uprooted individual, and the only way I can see human creations is on level of basic humanity, where everyone is just what the human body and mind can allow him/her to be. But OTOH I know plenty of people who see music as a national cultural capital, and as such provable of some kind of innate Hegelian ethic spirit - but I find this not to my taste. Many people identify particular music with ethnicities, that;s why I had been asked some time ago on a different forum if I am from Afganistan for posting Pashu music - some people cannot perceive that someone who is not from this culture would value  it's music. I don't like borders - nor in land, nor in mind, nor in human expression.




Edited by Don Quixote - 09-Mar-2012 at 02:00

I see, thanks.
I have no idea how they feel about it, I had never talked with a person from this generation and that culture. I adore every type of folk/ethnic music, but I don't see it as a national identity mechanism, just as beauty, combination of sounds that affects one's soul and inspires different emotions. In the case of Arabic music, I love the languidity of it, it's fluidity, it's primeval rhythm, it's sadness-taken-as-a-part-of-life....everything flows, runs, one doesn't know where it's going to go, unpredictable - so different than the far more rational Western music.
It has the face of a river, and the wave of sorrow and the touch of air on hot skin,
Like a barefooted girl dancing in the dusty road leading to a magic lad of Nowheres
Where the air leaks though my fingers like heated sand caressed by a horse's mane
And goes, vanishing in the sand dunes like a sigh of an exhausted lover on lost Times





Edited by Don Quixote - 09-Mar-2012 at 01:10

What is "generation 5Xer's"?

Edited by Don Quixote - 08-Mar-2012 at 23:03

Edited by Don Quixote - 20-Feb-2012 at 22:25