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Healing Dance Music of the Kalahari San

Various Artists
Healing Dance Music of the Kalahari San

Among the !Kung San people from the northwestern Kalahari Desert region, music helps a spiritual healer enter into a religious trance (!kia)). Men and women chant, sing, clap rhythmically and drum; and when the music "heats up" enough to send a healer into the realm between human and spirit worlds, all who attend the dance are healed of their illnesses. Recorded between 1968 and 1972 by American anthropologists.

Track Listing

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!Kung woman, Dobe, Botswana
01:16
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102
Two !Kung women, Dobe, Botswana
00:48
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103
!Kung women and men, Xai Xai, Botswana
11:07
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104
!Kung women and men, Xai Xai, Botswana
12:39
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201
Young !Kung man and !Kung women, Xai Xai, Botswana
11:41
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202
!Kung women with male drummer, Botswana
11:00