But, once again, the practice of retaining traditional customs while attempting to redefine them had a sustaining effect: the traditional beliefs and customs lived on, in new guises.Īll Saints Day, otherwise known as All Hallows (hallowed means sanctified or holy), continued the ancient Celtic traditions.
This time it established November 2nd as All Souls Day-a day when the living prayed for the souls of all the dead. Recognizing that something that would subsume the original energy of Samhain was necessary, the church tried again to supplant it with a Christian feast day in the 9th century. The powerful symbolism of the traveling dead was too strong, and perhaps too basic to the human psyche, to be satisfied with the new, more abstract Catholic feast honoring saints. The old beliefs associated with Samhain never died out entirely. Rather than try to obliterate native peoples' customs and beliefs, the pope instructed his missionaries to use them: if a group of people worshipped a tree, rather than cut it down, he advised them to consecrate it to Christ and allow its continued worship. Pope Gregory the First issued a now famous edict to his missionaries concerning the native beliefs and customs of the peoples he hoped to convert. As religious leaders, ritual specialists, and bearers of learning, the Druids were not unlike the very missionaries and monks who were to Christianize their people and brand them evil devil worshippers.Īs a result of their efforts to wipe out "pagan" holidays, such as Samhain, the Christians succeeded in effecting major transformations in it. Columcille converted them to Christianity, the Celts practiced an elaborate religion through their priestly caste, the Druids, who were priests, poets, scientists and scholars all at once. In the early centuries of the first millennium A.D., before missionaries such as St. Samhain became the Halloween we are familiar with when Christian missionaries attempted to change the religious practices of the Celtic people. The New Yorker offers readers an in-depth look at Animal Collective's career and an analysis of their strong new album Time Skiffs in this interesting piece. This Far Out piece ponders whether Neil has taken things too far by questioning the "soul" of rank and file workers despite the noble intentions of his protest.Ī deep dive into the new Animal Collective record After removing his music from Spotify, Neil took things a step further a few days ago by urging Spotify employees to save their souls and quit. Neil Young recently escalated his dispute with Spotify, which was originally ignited by the dissemination of COVID misinformation on the platform's premier podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. Neil Young urges Spotify employees to quit He passed away this week at the age of 85. In recent years, his music saw a revival via hip hop samples from the likes of Wu Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. Syl Johnson released loads of amazing soul and funk music throughout his career, which was most active during the 60's and 70's.Betty Davis was one of the most powerful singers in the history of funk, releasing a string of groundbreaking early 70's records that were notable at the time for their confident embrace of female empowerment and sexual freedom.One NME writer, partially for selfish reasons (he owns a ton of CDs), explores whether or not this is representative of a true movement back to the format. Now that vinyl production is mired in supply chain woes, CD sales have begun to tick up as well. Cassettes have seen growth in recent years as well, but they remain quite niche. Giphy - many years now, vinyl has been the physical audio format du jour due to its superior audio quality, the prominence of album artwork and the fact that it represents a physical object the consumer can own.
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