ABSTRACT
Music and dance have the capacity to engender in experience that which is objective in the rite and, at the same time, subject those who are embraced in their realm in a process of change which the rite intends. In the context of music and dance, the exorcists restore the physical equilibrium of the patient and withdraw the essence of demonic disturbance. Musical time has many of the features of phenomenologically described "originary" time and constitutes an objective correlative of time in an existential or experiential dimension. Exorcism trance is a structural analogue of dance. Trance is a condensation and a reinternalization of the outwardly projected space, time and vital force of the demonic made apparent in the dance. It is conceivable that the process of contextual formation in music and dance is generative of trance and in accordance with the terms these forms establish.
