CBS to Broadcast ‘Faith, Music and Culture’

CBS announced plans to air “Faith, Music and Culture,” an interfaith religion special beginning June 7.

The special highlights the work of

  • Hasidic hip-hop artists DeScribe, Y-Love and Diwon, observant Jewish rappers with a spiritual message. I chronicled their work previously here and here.
  • Brooklyn Qawwali Party, an eclectic 11-piece orchestra based in New York that specializes in the sound of Qawwali — the devotional music of Sufis, the mystical arm of Islam — with a funky jazz sensibility.
  • all-male a cappella group, Anointed Voices, which formed two years ago after meeting at Christian-based The Bowery Mission in New York.
  • Kirtan, the ancient Hindu practice of call-and-response chanting of Sanskrit mantras.

Looks like I’ll be watching. Let me know what you think.

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