NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/bit/listserv/allmusic/15350

Text File | 1993-01-22 | 1.7 KB | 33 lines

Comments: Gated by [e-mail]
Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RUST1.DPO.UAB.EDU!USTS060
Priority: normal
X-mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R5).
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:40:03 CST
Sender:       Discussions on all forms of Music <[e-mail]>
From:         Dave <[e-mail]>
Subject:      A vague musical reference
Lines: 20

    As part of my rock 'n' roll class I just finished reading Ishmael
Reed's _Mumbo Jumbo_.  Wow, what a hell of a book.  Enough to make me
seriously consider HooDoo religion and hope in earnest for a visit
from Erzulie. ;-)> (By the way, for an idea into Erzulie's nature just
pay attention to Libby Doe's posts.)  The main emphahsis is to
present the African-American additions to American culture in a
spiritualistic way that presents a sort of universal, history
spanning battle between the followers of the Atonist path and Jes
Grew.  It is set the 1920' during the Harlem Rennaissance.
Jazz and Blues play very heavily into Jes Grew and are seen as
a modern incarnate of the religion, originally an invention of
Osiris.  Really cool.  Really spiritual.  Still trying to make sense
of all the images involved.  So I appologize if this seems
disjointed.  Suffice to say, I highly reccomend this book.  It's good
for your souls, folks!
======================================================================
Rev. Dave Hall                |  "It's not the voting that's
[e-mail]     |   democracy, it's the counting.
                              |     -- Tom Stoppard
======================================================================