11 Jan
2010
11 Jan
'10
4:11 p.m.
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/