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) !Kung woman, Dobe, Botswana	01:16
102	Giraffe Dance Song (2) Two !Kung women, Dobe, Botswana	00:48
103	Giraffe Dance (1) !Kung women and men, Xai Xai, Botswana	11:07
104	Giraffe Dance (2) !Kung women and men, Xai Xai, Botswana	12:39
201	Trees Dance Young !Kung man and !Kung women, Xai Xai, Botswana	11:41
202	Drum Dance !Kung women with male drummer, Botswana	11:00