Thursday, July 12, 2007

The Industry of Multiculturalism

In researching for my reaction paper, I came across the piece “Adiemus” by Karl Jenkins as well as J.W. Pepper’s write-up on the work. A few of the problematics in this statement are italicized for emphasis.

”Although this is an original work, the words, which simulate a tribal language, give it a world-music feeling. In fact, the chant-like character of the piece almost makes you feel as though you are taking part in a tribal ritual. A compelling work that has become popular in festivals and regional choral activities.”

How much of a problem do we have when the industry of multiculturalism caters to complete ignorance? ARGH! (Headache beginning).

3 comments:

Joe Piccirillo said...

UNBELIEVABLE- and the sad thing is- something like this is not hard to find - Pepper has a monopoly on "pseudo-music" This is problematic!

Anonymous said...

Which came first, though- Pepper's skewed phraseology, or teacher's demands to find something fulfill requirements?

divatobe said...

You're joking! That's just sad.