I haven't read much about the recent hareidi ban on certain kinds of music but it seems to be another aspect of racist hareidism. As well, this has significant overtones of hareidi disdain for history and an acknowledgment of inevitable cultural cross-contamination.
Hareidi Jews haven't yet figured out where their clothes come from, their food, or their language. Nor are they able to perceive the influences of clothes styles on theirs, the influence of food from ambient cultures on theirs or the roots of their language in its development. Poor folly that they really think completely inside the box of 4 corners.
What do they know about the roots of the music that they take to be 'theirs'. Is it not likely that it is based on music in cultures we've lived with? Klezmer did not come from nowhere, chazzanim often use contemporary tunes, nobody writing music is deaf to ambient culture and it's musical influences.
You know the midrash that says that there is nothing other than the 4 cubits
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment