Music and Rituals
Intro: Music is used in just about every form of a ritual that I know of. My blog today is about two polar opposite types of ritual, both of which I have personal experience with. Funerals: I have unfortunately been to many funerals for both family and family of friends, and all of them played similar music. The first funeral I remember specifically was that of my Pops (my dad’s dad) where most of the music played was 90s and early 2000s country songs about life and death that my Pops liked. These songs were Remember When by Alan Jackson (a song about reflecting on life), Almost Home by Craig Morgan (a story of an old man just ready to get to Heaven), and Song for Dad by Keith Urban (a song my dad and uncle found to honor their father). The thing that was different about his funeral was the burial when a 21 gun salute was done because he served in the US Army during Vietnam. This ritual included the pl...