The Healing Drum African Wisdom Teachings

<i>The Healing Drum</i> traces the extraordinary cultural legacy of the Minianka tribe of West Africa, for whom music serves a sacred, healing function for the individual and society. The authors explore the Minianka view of humanity, music, and the cosmos relative to work, celebration, herbal medicine, dance, trance, initiation, and death. <BR>The first book of its kind, delivering a message of untapped wisdom and power from a little-known culture through the universal medium of music.