Summary
Gilbert Rouget: Music and trance
Trance in the most diverse forms in which it manifests itself, almost without exception is realized through the closest connections with music. Is music the agent that, as it is colloquially said - makes a person "fall into a trance", to "come out of himself" and - in general - what is the role of music in a trance? Gilbert Rouget was the first to try to answer this simplified question in his extensive study Music and trance. Giving his book the subtitle "Sketch for a general theory on the relationship between music and obsession", the author warns that it is only about the material he collected by recording and examining manifestations of obsession in wide areas of Africa and Asia, South America and Europe, and critically examining the theoretical contributions to this problem from Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, to contemporary authors.
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