Music and Rituals
I have heard a lot of ritual music in my life over the holidays, and on birthdays, and special occasions and religious events. At church or funerals or weddings or even around Christmas. I have never thought of specific songs being part of a "ritual" for certain events or holidays, but because of the traditionality of ritual songs, it makes them similar to Andean or Native American ritual songs. The first ritual song I am going to talk about is not a common ritual song or anything most people have heard of, but Mexican tribal songs are probably the most unique "ritual" song I have heard before. It reminds me a lot of Native music in a lot of aspects, but also has a few things that are different about it; I saw a bunch of performers doing dances and singing songs that were a lot like this in Cozumel Mexico. This video is the closest I could find to the ritual songs I saw, but some of them are a lot like this but also include singing. The singing is very similar to ...