Word: chants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, today's fashion does lean towards conformity. Gap does sound strangely fascist in their ads that chant "everyone in cords." But when I brought the topic up with my friends, they not only agreed with me, they added to my list of complaints. "Look at how they depict women!" my roommate intoned. Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied...
...high priestess lifts her arms to the crescent moon, her bright silver pentagrams shimmering in the light of a burning cauldron. About her stand hooded figures, some with long forked staffs bearing stag horns and hawk feathers, animal skins and other talismans. "Circle of power," she chants, "I conjure thee to ban such things as named by me...Attract such things as named by me...Be cleansed of all impurity...So mote it be." Surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes, the others chant back in litany, "So mote...
...this setback did not deter Lan for long. "I went next door," Lan recalls matter-of-factly. "Next door" turned out to be the Juilliard School of Music, where Lan studied viola and piano, performed at Lincoln Center, and eventually produced a prelude for the viola quintet and a chant and recitative for the viola and piano. These works were recorded on an album and sold in record stores nationwide...
...Catherine Muskett is too young to remember the day the Roman Catholic music died. The Latin prayers, the ethereal Gregorian chant--they were cast out of the Catholic Mass in the 1960s, after the modernizing church council known as Vatican II. But Muskett doesn't remember the '60s either. To her, today's perky folk-guitar Masses are more grating than groovy. "Catholics of my generation are starved for the real thing," she says. So each Sunday, she and her family drive half an hour to attend the Solemn High Mass, most of it in Latin, offered by St. Catherine...
...time when old religious rituals are being embraced anew by many faiths, Muskett is part of a retro-revolt among U.S. Catholics. The generation that not long ago pushed Gregorian chant into the Top 40 may now plant it back into the Mass. Since 1990, the number of U.S. Catholic dioceses allowing traditional Masses (in Latin or a mix of English and Latin) has leaped from six to 131--70% of the total. More than 150,000 people attend them each week...