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