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Music and Trance

A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession

by Gilbert Rouget · Brunhilde Biebuyck (trans.)

A classic ethnomusicological study of the role of music in trance and possession across many cultures. Rouget's contrast between silent, solitary ecstasy and noisy, communal trance offers a scholarly parallel to the chaos magick distinction between inhibitory and excitatory gnosis.

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