KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trance and Ritual Music: by Annea Lockwood, Program 5

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA/BBC

Identifier

TR.1973.05.02.1

Program Series

Trance and Ritual Music

Program Length

18 min

Dates

1973-05-02 | broadcast

Description

“In the end, there are no listeners. At a concert, you are either in the hall, aware of people and extraneous noises, or within the space created by the music. In these rituals and ceremonies, all are blended with each other; their hearts with the drumming and all its subtleties; the rhythm of the brain with the pulsing of a single note, somewhere. The people are the action, are the sound, and invocation.”

Genres

World music
Field recordings

Musical Selections

Indian lullabye, Columbia -- Sacred flute music, New Guinea -- Dance of the Dusun tribe, North Borneo -- Bell from Buddhist monastery, Burma -- Indian jaltarang solo -- Fish dance, Philippines -- Morning call to prayer, Malaya -- Nadaswaram solo, India with sounds of glass from “Glass World”

Subjects

Indigenous peoples
Indian music

Acknowledgment

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