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Rouget presents an extraordinary synthesis of anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical-religious literature, proposing a taxonomy of various traditional devices and precise hypotheses about the roles that music, dance, ritual, and religious and therapeutic purposes play in the "strange mechanism" of trance, starting with possession trance.
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Music and Trance, Gilbert Rouget
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- Released
- 1985
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- Title
- Music and Trance
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gilbert Rouget
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Released
- 1985
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0226730069
- ISBN13
- 9780226730066
- Series
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- Rouget presents an extraordinary synthesis of anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical-religious literature, proposing a taxonomy of various traditional devices and precise hypotheses about the roles that music, dance, ritual, and religious and therapeutic purposes play in the "strange mechanism" of trance, starting with possession trance.