Break Down Walls, Musically!
If you want to get to know someone really well, talk to them about the types of music they listen to. Maybe they like jazz, or hip hop, or classic rock, or 10th century Gregorian chant. Whenever I put my music on shuffle it can be a wild ride through music history and well, my mood! Last stop classical music, next stop heavy metal. Then it’s off to folk music before ending at City Pop (70s/80s music from Japan). There is always a song or a piece of music that is the perfect soundtrack to what I’m feeling at the time. Which makes me wonder, if music has the ability to make me feel happy, does it also have the ability to make me feel negative about myself and the world around me? We might all know that anything humans invent has the potential for good but also harm. The greater for one, the greater for the other. This is true for music as well. But when does music do harm? Is one person’s good intentions another person’s harm? You might know the story from the Bible book of Joshua about ...
