{"id":106,"date":"2012-01-15T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2012\/01\/15\/religion-and-music\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T09:29:43","slug":"religion-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2012\/01\/15\/religion-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can a religion exist without music ? No religion can be totally cerebral and there are always some rituals which are invariably associated with some kind of music. Even in Islam, where the attitude towards music is at best ambivalent, the ‘Adhan’ , Islamic call to prayer is\u00a0recited\u00a0in a\u00a0melodious\u00a0voice rather than as a terse announcement.<\/div>\n
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Can music exist without religion ?\u00a0Apparently, the answer is\u00a0\u00a0yes, as ‘kolaveri<\/a>‘ is also music , having nothing at all \u00a0to do with any religion. But then,if \u00a0you ask a carnatic\u00a0musician, you cannot even think of music without thinking of God. There is simply no room for atheists there. \u00a0Certain kind of music gives rise to certain kind of emotions as joy, peace or\u00a0compassion\u00a0in a listener. To a practitioner of carnatic music, music is an intellectual and emotional exercise and also an expression of Bhakti and it also creates a\u00a0similar\u00a0feeling in a listener’s mind.<\/div>\n
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Then, we have the lyrics or sahityam . With the current generation, lyrics have taken a back seat and it is all drums and beats. Drums and beats are not great and \u00a0such music is so enlivening and exhilarating. \u00a0I remember , when we were in the academy, we used to have what we called ‘jam sessions’. We could hit the ceiling\u00a0energized\u00a0by orange squash,\u00a0some\u00a0eats like jalebi and doughnuts and…….. the Drums. It was all expression of raw energy and ‘OSI BISA’ (particularly, ‘ojah awake<\/a>‘ \u00a0and ‘dance the body music<\/a>‘) was a great favourite.<\/div>\n
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While the effects of rhythm and beats are physical, it is only the words that can really get to your mind. \u00a0Words are powerful and music is even more powerful, and when these powerful words are set to great music and rendered with the right bhava or emotion, it definitely does something to your innermost self. What’s amazing is that every time you here such a piece of music, the feeling gets more intense rather than follow the law of diminishing utility. To me, Bharathiyaar songs, sung by MS, or DK Pattammal \/ Nithyashree or Bombay Jayashree can be listened to any number of times.<\/div>\n
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Tailpiece<\/u> . Recently I read AR Rahman’s biography<\/a>. AR Rahman is said to \u00a0avoid\u00a0composing\u00a0for non-sufi, religious songs. Just wondering what made Rafi sing such wonderful bhajans. Some of these works,\u00a0Baiju Bawra<\/a>, Kohinoor<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0have been the combined effort of a great team, Mohammad Rafi,\u00a0Shakeel Badayuni,<\/span>\u00a0and Naushad, with star cast including Dileep Kumar. They are professionals alright, but how does Rafi put in so much emotions into his devotional songs ?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Can a religion exist without music ? No religion can be totally cerebral and there are always some rituals which are invariably associated with some kind of music. Even in Islam, where the attitude towards music is at best ambivalent, the ‘Adhan’ , Islamic call to prayer is\u00a0recited\u00a0in a\u00a0melodious\u00a0voice rather than as a terse … Continue reading “Religion and Music”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}