Trance like states are common across many of the world’s cultures but perhaps we aren’t as far from transcendent altered states as we might think! Sit back and let Ethnomusicology Explained do his thing.

Texts:
Gilbert Rouget, Music and Trance: A Theory of Relations Between Music and Possesion (1985).
N Wallin, B Merku, and S Brown, The Origins of Music (2000).
Judith Becker, Deep Listeners (2004).