american indians had a conception of 'songs' whereby songs might be considered capable of healing. is that peculiar to the new world? have to look some more... for instance if it surfaces in east africa, this conception of a song where a song might operate on something disordered in the sense of 'heal' can i not slide it back on the new world? isn't the east african sound, by the time we catch any, derived from farther east, stretching back the trade routes to polynesia? check dates.
'uplift', i'm guessing there are lots of instances of pre-colombian western thought turning to musical uplift... some anyway... but heal? the thing to note is the nature of musical possession.
course i imagine having this conversation in some styrofoam coffee hour.
"quin, i think everyone recognizes the capability of music to heal."
"yeah? where?" (i want to see your citations.)
if you articulate the notion of healing to fraser's 'like to like' magical conception then is that the formulation that allows media ultraviolence to promote peace - does henry thomas sing violent songs of murder to quiet his unruly spasmodically brutal audience? is terroontino (sic.) looking to salve our conciousness in this latest saga?
chief seattle (?), i think it was chief seattle, warned that in the quiet hours the ghosts of his dead would wander our streets, for the ghosts of his dead were not like the ghosts of our dead, so quick to flee from the world which they had loved. presumably our ghosts hadn't loved the world, or what they had loved was only their own interaction like the frustrated dead in our town.
estavanico waited for cowheadboy's longing to subside and meanwhile delivered unto the beautiful immamia 17.. 34.. 68.. children (stories vary) and in the long afternoons when it was the custom of those that lived there then to repose, estavanico was wakefull and went up into the cliffs and there built a city of dogs.
"what they are is a bunch of silly doodles in the dirt by some pack of gone injuns or some negro drifter. the way of progress is gonna have its say. the way of progress is gonna have its say. dynamite will fix them right." sheriff haney scott.
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