[Carly]

I suppose my question wasn’t very clear. But nowhere in my question did I say that I think Asian music is ‘weird’ or ‘odd’. I am not really asking why people like Asian music. I am trying to ask about what it means and what artistic impulse it comes from, and how I can better listen to it from a different perspective than the one I am used to. I think that the Chinese and Japanese (and Indian) music that I have heard is beautiful and ethereal and … well, otherworldly, for want of a better word. I simply want to understand more about it, from someone who is willing to try to explain it to me. I have always been intrigued with the purity and dignity of Chinese and Japanese religious traditions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism), and I’ve wondered if the traditional Asian music that I have heard has any connection to these religious traditions. I am really not interested in arguing with anyone. But if someone out there can help me understand this beautiful music from a non-Western perspective, I would really appreciate it. Let me put it this way: to me, most modern Western music is all about high energy and strong rhythm. Asian music does not seem to be about high energy and strong rhythm. And I would like to understand how to listen to Asian music. So I’ll ask again, hopefully more clearly this time. What is the meaning and philosophy behind it? Does that make sense?

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