KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trance and Ritual Music: by Annea Lockwood, Program 3

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA/BBC

Identifier

TR.1973.05.09

Program Series

Trance and Ritual Music

Program Length

19 min

Dates

1973-05-09 | broadcast

Description

"Witchcraft music, spirit healings, exorcisms, secret mystic societies, séances, invocations of gods, health and life. People form rituals, their music, and its momentum within themselves; form their gods in their minds; use their music to carry them from one self through to another, more buried self. In the end, it is ourselves who we invoke.”

Genres

Field recordings
World music

Musical Selections

Warning for impending ceremony of flying witches, New Guinea -- Malayan black magic healing ceremony -- Shaman exorcism Korea -- Himalayan tribesmen blowing silver horns, India -- Spirit seance in British Guiana -- Malayan magic religious ceremony with glass sounds from “Glass World” -- Rites of the Nightwatchers of Porto Novo, French West Africa

Subjects

Witchcraft
Rituals

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.