KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trance and Ritual Music: by Annea Lockwood, Program 6

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA/BBC

Identifier

TR.1973.05.02.2

Program Series

Trance and Ritual Music

Program Length

20 min

Dates

1973-05-02 | broadcast

Description

“Music is a force, not an art only. Ritual music, in which the sounds and movements create a state of trance, ecstatic, or just of great well being after sickness, not by chance, but from the knowledge that sound, like the other energies of the world, shapes us with great power irresistibly. And if we don’ t feel this, we are less whole.”

Genres

World music
Field recordings

Musical Selections

Chanting in the Taj Mahal and twin conch solo, India -- Ceylonese Buddhist priest chanting sutras -- Ceremonial drum rhythm from Indian tantric ceremony -- Motilon puberty ceremony, Colombia -- Dance of the horse, Malaya -- Ashanti ceremonial drumming, Ghana -- Armenian dance with glass sounds from “Glass World”

Subjects

Indigenous peoples
Ethnomusicology
Rituals

Acknowledgment

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