VPMB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sufi Music, Music Therapy, Art Music
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Dualism referring it back to the 17th century going back to ren descartes, who came up with this theory. He started this idea that mind and the body are separate. This is very much part of bio-medicine this idea. Nothing should be influenced by emotions, things go from simple to complex, we have all these duel ideas. In differ cultures trance is manifested in different ways and in different situations. According to rouget and his book music and trance, there is nothing intrinsic in music that makes us go into trance that the reality is very often music is present when people go into trance. Judith becker who has written a book called deep listening, she suggest that there is some limited universal regarding trance and how it manifest but there is not general universal. Rouget, not all arabs are muslims and not all muslims are arabs.
