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Author: Kassie
There’s an interesting debate in the music world regarding the exact definition of music. Where’s the line between music and sound? Who gets to decide what’s music was what isn’t? At the center of this discussion is the Adhan, which is an Islamic call to prayer. You can take a listen below:
To somebody who’s never heard it before, the Adhan definitely sounds like music. However, within Islamic culture, the Adhan isn’t considered to be music, as music can be seen as a worldly pleasure. There was actually a controversy about it a couple of years ago when a composer found the audio, and, not knowing what it was or that it was sacred, mixed it into background music for an anime. It eventually resulted in the distributors pulling several CDs and DVDs off of the shelves and reprinting them:
Is the classification of music objective, or should it be considered within the context of its role in the culture? Below are a couple of different perspectives on the topic: