Imagine if music had life-changing properties—but the very texts that tell about it were never assigned in music classes. Those were the books I wanted to read during my lockdown.
Great list of books. Kind of strange I have been on almost the exact same reading journey. I think Ritual and Romance for the Grail legend would fit in here along with The Golden Bough as the basis for most of Campbell's stuff. And Totem and Taboo by Freud, which brought a lot of this together.
Very interesting perspective. Perhaps, from an evolutionary perspective, one of the reasons music exists is for bonding over shared quests. It may provide a shared emotional backdrop that makes narratives inspirational and memorable.
What a great hope-imbued post. Sheer cultural medicine. Sustaining ultimate questions, roaming a very textured terrain of source readings, anchored in decades of your one-of-a-kind love of learning and creativity --- BRAVO and thank you!
Ted, just got to your column on pandemic reading. Why isn't The Odyssey included?
Great list of books. Kind of strange I have been on almost the exact same reading journey. I think Ritual and Romance for the Grail legend would fit in here along with The Golden Bough as the basis for most of Campbell's stuff. And Totem and Taboo by Freud, which brought a lot of this together.
Very interesting perspective. Perhaps, from an evolutionary perspective, one of the reasons music exists is for bonding over shared quests. It may provide a shared emotional backdrop that makes narratives inspirational and memorable.
What a great hope-imbued post. Sheer cultural medicine. Sustaining ultimate questions, roaming a very textured terrain of source readings, anchored in decades of your one-of-a-kind love of learning and creativity --- BRAVO and thank you!
Ted, and aren't there more than one occurence of actual music?
Ah, the tautology of "discipline"!