Music Travel Report: Local Culture, Geography, and Native Music of Jerusalem

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Musical Travel Report
Why Jerusalem?
My occupational engagement at a Faith-based drug and alcohol correctional facility has enabled me to experience the life-transforming effect of the Judeo-Christian facility. I am deeply fascinated with this culture that has bequeathed inspirational writings that still comforts and reassures millennia later. A culture’s tradition could probably be lost between the general changes. However, the Jews are peculiar people because they have incorporated a reminder that they diligently have preserved their tradition withstanding exiles and oppressional powers such as Rome that expected assimilation of its subject to adopt their Roman customs. It will certainly be fascinating to engage in this culture where Kings are Psalmists.
Local Culture and Geography
Jerusalem is the capital of the nation of Israel. Israel is located in the Asian continent, and it borders Egypt in the African continent. Thus, the two countries connect Africa to the East. The strategic collection has also served to spread the Abrahamic religions, namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that revere the region as the Holy Land courtesy of the multiple God interventions in the locality as described by their religious texts (Riggs 452). The religious context is significant in the music discussion because hymns characterize Jewish worship. Notably, the aspect has been inherited by Christianity, which also regards hymn as a significant element of worship. Evidence indicates that the main context for the continuity of the Jewish ethnic tradition is the synagogue, which affirms the significance of the religious context in Jewish culture (Garland Encyclopedia of...