found: Grove music online(Pilgrimage: Pilgrimage provides a metaphor for life's sacred journey for religions throughout the world. Music is used not only to contextualize and to articulate the different stages of the pilgrim's journey, but to facilitate the spiritual and physical transformation of the pilgrim's life. Pilgrimage music metaphorically traces the passage of a human being through life and, upon completing the sacred journey, pilgrims re-experience the event through subsequent performance of pilgrimage repertories. In most religions pilgrimage repertories are distinct from other sacred repertories and, when they are performed, are especially powerful forms of remembering the genealogies of those who have passed along the path. Pilgrimage repertories depend on mass participation and therefore they use familiar forms (e.g. hymns) and repetitive structures (e.g. Buddhist mantras). Mass participation, moreover, involves the entire body, not only in the passage along the sacred journey and in processions at the shrine, but also in dance and other forms of ritualized expression. The metaphors of pilgrimage also lend themselves, through stylization and dissemination, to popular and art musics. Metaphors of the sacred journey in the African diaspora pervade blues, gospel and reggae repertories. In addition music representing pilgrimage spills from sacred to secular genres, accompanying processes of sacralization. The music of modern and postmodern pilgrimage often historicized the political response to rising nationalism, racism and political repression.)
