Music and Traditional Healing

Nicholas N. Kofie writes in 'Voices' a world forum for music therapy:

Music (therapy) has been part of the Ghanaian traditional healer's stock-in-trade. Music accompanies the priest's suite (of dances) and increases in intensity up to the point when the priest/priestess enters the semi-conscious trance state and starts to communicate with the ancestral spirits. That is how far music is used by the would-be therapist as a stimulus.