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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