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Date: 04 July 2003 22:14:58
I ordered 2 books from those nice people at amazon today. 'Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and Religion' by Earle Jerome Coleman and 'Inside the Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians About Spirituality, Creativity and Consciousness',
Dimitri Ehrlich (Editor). I'm really excited by the latter in particular. It's a collection of interviews with musicians (Billy Bragg, Jeff Buckley, Joan Osborne, Leonard Cohen, Al Green, Philip Glass, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Iggy Pop, Allen Ginsberg, Ziggy Marley among them) about the creative process and how this relates to the 'spiritual'/'religious'. I shall post a review when I've read it.
Got a cheap CD today by Mixmaster Morris. It's a ambient/chilled mix and musically its good, but not spectacular. So why am I blogging about it? 'Cos near the beginning there's a wonderful monologue about how we should follow what we are passionate about when we are 20 instead of waiting 'till we are 40 or 50. I'll put the whole thing in the next few days along with a great poem I found on the back of a DJ Q 12". Made me (even more) aware of the creative and imaginative possibilities of music and words, so simple, yet so surprisingly profound and energising.
Which brings me the department of Divinity at St. Andrews University (...er...obviously!). Among the post-graduate seminars at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts I found this:
-ITIA Research Seminar
2002 - 2003
St Mary's College, Seminar Room 1
Fridays 9:15 - 10:45
Semester 2
28 February - Dr Heidi Campbell, University of Edinburgh
'Last night a DJ saved my Life': Investigating Club Culture as Ritual and the Internet as Spiritual Space.
I remember the good old days when studying theology was about sweating it out over obscure German/Hebrew/Sanscrit/Greek texts in a cold library basement........
I'm investigating ways of getting some MP3 snippets on here. Watch this space but don't hold your breath.
Cheers y'all,
DK.