Ritual and Folklore in Siberian Shamanism

The evolution of human music in light of increased prosocial behavior: a new model

“…In most surviving indigenous folk music traditions, the performer, as a rule, does not "lie" through musicking but conveys what is in his heart and mind. Whether he performs pre-existing songs, created by other musicians, epic tales, where he must speak for various protagonists, or shamanic kamlaniye, which requires impersonations of spirits and souls of other people, he and his listeners believe that he temporarily becomes "possessed" by some other power that communicates through his mouth [228].…”