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

101	Giraffe Dance Song (1)	San woman, solo voice, Dobe, Botswana	01:16
102	Giraffe Dance Song (2)	Two San women, solo voice, Dobe, Botswana	00:48
103	Giraffe Dance (1)	San women singing and clapping to accompany male dancers, Xai Xai, Botswana	11:07
104	Giraffe Dance (2)	San women singing and clapping to accompany male dancers, Xai Xai, Botswana	12:39
201	Trees Dance	Young San man, solo voice, accompanied by women singing and clapping, Xai Xai, Botswana	11:41
202	Drum Dance	San women singing and clapping, accompanied by male drummer, Botswana	11:00