MUSIC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lamb Of God, Jewish Holidays, Beta Israel
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Modern african religious music (african church music & african jewish music) Historical perspecive: african musicians, in the course of the 20th century, did appropriate several novel ideas brought to them from other foreign cultures through missionary aciviies and colonizaion. The development of many types of modern/contemporary music is thus the result of the fusion of the selected foreign elements with tradiional elements. Modern african music: modern sacred music, african jewish tradiional music. African jewish socieies: the abayunda: a community of approximately 600 people- live in mbate in. Eastern uganda (the abayudaya"s ancestors converted to judaism in. 1919: the beta israel of ethiopia, the lemba of south africa and zimbabwe. These african jewish socieies pracice the following jewish rules: follow jewish rituals, observe the law of the sabbath, celebrate jewish holidays, keep kosher and praying in hebrew. The first encounter from roughly ad 62 to 1500 c. e. , was the ime.
