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First Born, the Grandfathers told, had emerged from quivering mud to the rythmn of his own heart and so man had known the true rythmn from the beginning. Soon afterwards man had learned to use this rythmn for making song and then certain ones had discovered the true power in song the power for making spiritual contact.
Creation myth of the Dakota indians. Not content with using the drums to convey coded messages... often of a subversive nature, the beat and rythums that mesmerise the people and put them into a trance-like state, these drums are not merely musical instruments, they are the real language through which these people speak, a language alien and therefore threatening to us. It would be foolhardy of us to ignore this threat.
Captain James Vaughan, assistant military attaché, Trinidad
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