Greg McKenzie wrote: > > Recently I danced to a band that played almost no tunes during the > evening in a traditional style. The dancers loved the swing in the > music but something was missing. Missing was the trance state > achieved by the regular, repetitive, driving tempo of a traditional > reel or jig. >
I see this as band-to-band differences. Some bands play in ways that are conducive to dancers getting into a 'trance' state, others don't. Listen to duke miller calling in 1965 [1] -- with the caller calling each dance the whole way through (or dropping out once near the end with "you're on your own") I don't hear these as 'trance' like at all. I don't think there's a problem with that, though. Jeff [1] http://www.configular.com/duke/
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