Beyond Song Texts--The Lingual Fundamentals of African Drum Music

Abstract

Increasingly, all over the world, people listen more and understand less what music is saying. More and more, the music available to the modern world audience in particular has increasingly no human-music sense or meaning to offer. Perhaps the world no longer needs to make human sense. After all, technological fantasy and barrenness in humane attributes are in vogue and generating the alarmingly robotic human sensing of the arts. Frustrated and atrophied intellects are striving obsessively, to re-invent musical meaning, driven by analytical meningitis, creative anemia, and faked presentational emotions. Listening dispositions are increasingly autohyped, less edifying, and lacking in psychical therapy. As such, people no longer understand or experience what music means, or how and what music contributes to human essence. That is, the world is no longer appreciating why music is an essential of beatific living, and not an accessory in mechanized living.