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Gilbert Rouget

Music and Trance

A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession

418 pages, 8 halftones  6 x 9  © 1985

Paper $39.00

ISBN: 9780226730066   Published December 1985

Preface to the American Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
1. Trance and Possession
2. Music and Possession
3. Music, Shamanism, Mediumship, Exorcism
4. The Strange Mechanism
Part Two
5. Music and Trance among the Greeks
6. The Renaissance and Opera
7. Music and Trance among the Arabs
8. Conclusion
Discography
Filmography
1. Subject Index
2. Index of Religions, Sects, Divinities, and Religious Figures
3. Index of Ethnic Groups and Places
4. Index of Authors, Individuals, and Characters
Subjects



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