Derek J Fiedler | Why ALL Music is Ritual w/ Drew @DerekJFiedler | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Ethnomusicologist Drew shares his insights of music in the context of the culture that sings it. We get into some really fun topics like: "would aliens like our music?" and "Is there a culture without music?" and of course the ever important "what do we mean by "music" anyway? Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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My name is Derek J Fiedler. I live in Clearlake, CA. I'm a husband, father, writer, teacher, and musician that likes to take a deeper look into movies, culture, religion, you name it. I post original material through written, musical, and video forms - stories, articles, concept albums, video essays, you name it. And I share glimpses of my creative processing and research along the way through conversations, verbal processing, film analysis, book review, symbolic interpretation. I write articles for the Symbolic World Blog (thesymbolicworld.com/author/derekjfiedler/), and every other week newsletters called the Monday Mole (bit.ly/34hyjuJ).

TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Introducing ethnomusicologist Drew
00:04:30 Dueling Banjos
00:11:39 Drew's background and journey
00:20:18 Close Encounters vs. Arrival (2016) alien encounter
00:33:56 a Culture without Music??
00:40:45 Surface structure vs. Deep structure
00:52:04 Drew's 8 Elements of Music
01:11:41 How do we 'experience' music? Order of Operations?
01:29:37 Church music ritual: spontaneous vs scripted?
01:58:30 Final thoughts, Notes for next time