Re: Muslim Roots, US Blues

On Mar 5, 4:54=A0am, j_nsc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> Didn't Muslim music influence ....

I apologize for nit-picking, but a Muslim is a person who practises
the faith of Islam. "Muslim music" is a misnomer. Ali Akhbar Khan was
a Muslim. Is his music "Muslim music"?

> connection between Renaissance music and Arab-Islamic culture,

That's better.

The connection between flamenco,for example, and middle-eastern musics
has to do with the  Arab conquest that swept across the noth of Africa
and into Spain, bringing Arab-Islamic Moorish culture into the Iberian
peninsula. Islam came with it, but the music wasn't. as far as I know,
religious.