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Healing Dance Music of the Kalahari San

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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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Giraffe Dance Song (1) A large group with 25 women singers and 12 men dancers 01:16
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Giraffe Dance Song (2) Five male dancers with 12 women singers 00:48
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Giraffe Dance (1) A San woman singing 11:07
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Giraffe Dance (2) Two women singing 12:39
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Trees Dance Young San man 11:41
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Drum Dance Women singers with a male drum player 11:00