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Links that inspire, inform and invoke RhythmPharm.
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http://www.csmonitor.com
Move over Gershwin; these babies "got rhythm."
http://www.dholrhythms.com
Dholrhythms is an organization dedicated to raising awareness and educating people about the artistic and cultural heritage of India by teaching and performing the exuberant art of "Bhangra".
http://www.drums.org/dng/who.htm
Drums Not Guns - is a Dallas, Texas 501 (c)(3) non-profit membership organization devoted to stopping violence (increase the peace) through the power of percussion.
http://www.kodo.or.jp/frame.html
Famed Japanese Taiko drumming group that tour internationally and is rooted in the local community of Sado Island, Japan.
http://www.rhythmfusion.com/
Santa Cruz, CA based store run by Dror Sinai that specializes in world percussion instruments imported from many countries.
http://www.taketina.com/engl/main_n.htm
Developed by Austrian composer Reinhard Flatischler, this innovative approach to learning rhythm is presented as a group process where participants are guided into understanding how rhythmic archetypes become the basis for all forms of music.
http://www.mickeyhart.net/
This site of the Grateful Dead’s percussionist contains links for the many books he has authored on the historical and spiritual legacy of the drum.
http://www.momentrecords.com/zakir.html
This record label founded by classical Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain features Zakir's classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.
http://www.rikhiram.com/
New Delhi based makers of the finest Indian percussion instruments.
http://www.shamanism.co.uk/
A comprehensive site for U.K. based Centre for Contemporary Shamanism offering courses, workshops, articles, practitioner training and more.
http://www.stevendfarmer.com/
A celebrated author and psychotherapist with extensive studies, explorations and teachings into trauma recovery, men’s issues, shamanic practices and spiritual transformation.
http://r.hodges.home.comcast.net/Ear.html
This informative essay on African music and spirituality describes in detail how the traditional purpose of ritual polyrhythmic dialogue.
http://health.iafrica.com/holistic/656884.htm
"Music as therapy is a relatively new scientific notion, although since early man first pounded a rhythm on a stretched skin we have always known that getting with the beat is a “feel good” experience second to none. Today using music as part of a treatment regimen is beginning to be accepted by mainstream science; plenty of research is going on into how and why music acts as a physical and spiritual restorative."
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