As some of my favorite books are being offered for reading I would like
to add another. Layne Remonds's When The Woman Were Drummers has some
interesting insights about the change in balance. According to Redmond
there was also a corresponding change in the relationship to the drum's
purpose and who played it. There are many vase pictures of woman
holding round disk objects. Before woman had access to the acadamy most
male archeologists discribed those disks as cakes. Gimbutus says they
are drums. Redmond is a frame drummer herself and I think, quite a
scholar on the history of the frame drum. I seem to remember some
issues between Moses and his sister Miriam before leaving Eygpt. I am
no Old Testament scholar but seem to remember that Miriam was a drummer
and there were some power struggles between her and Moses. I think it
was the people that insisted Miriam be included. That would at least
date this struggle in the balance between the masculine and feminine to
that time.
Pat Black
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