Author: From Adapa to Enoch, Invention of Hebrew. Guggenheim fellow; I study how people say what God says. he/him, ลกu/ลกa/ลกi if you're archaic.
Apr 13, 2023 โข 14 tweets โข 3 min read
Why are 'foreign films' supposed to be boring and confusing, what about 'foreign' religions? I'm lucky to be teaching a class on religious ritual and myth in the ancient Mediterranean right now, and it's all 'foreign' ritual and music so this Scorsese letter hit home for me....
First we watched some of the Hatian Vodou ceremonies from the late 1940s that Maya Deren recorded in Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, still miraculously communicative and easy to "read." We'll do a little music theory to see why the singing there sounds so different...
