Blog – Page 3 – Katya Faris

Review-“Ethnomusicology and Music Law” By Anthony Seeger

Posted on November 18, 2018 by katyafaris

Précis: I found this to be one of the most enlightening articles that I have seen on the topic of indigenous music and copyright law. Its practical application to music producers of all music and… Read more.

World Music, Bellydance, and “Selloutism”

Posted on September 24, 2018 by katyafaris

Conceptualizing what World Music or traditional bellydance should be like is a bit like trying to pin down a drop of water with oily fingers: it slides out from underneath, and you can never fully… Read more.

Katya Faris Remastered Demo 2018

Posted on August 9, 2018 by katyafaris

I remastered my Demo from 2014 and added music from my CD, “Raqsat Katya”! Tracks are “Al Toba”, and “Layla Wa Majnun”. Videography by Jason Aaron Jolliff Location: 247 Sky Bar, Downtown Indiananpolis, Indiana

Jazz and the Symbiosis of Text and Context in Improvisational Performance

Posted on August 8, 2018 by katyafaris

Jazz is in my blood. My mother was a Jazz singer from the South, and I grew up at her rehearsals from birth onward. For the first three years of my life I was on… Read more.

Altered States of Consciousness and Healing in Indigenous Rituals

Posted on July 25, 2018 by katyafaris

Written: October 26, 2001 Achieving altered states of consciousness, or ASC, is a prime factor in many healing rituals and ceremonies; a ceremony is made up of many rituals. What I have done is to… Read more.