s-secrets' of given cultural ritual/symbolic practices, or 'zones of focus'; because this area of African experience is undergoing profound change as we move into the third millennium. The folkloric festival in Casamance is a timely occurrence that gives insight into the regional cultural qualities of a people in transition. In seeking to penetrate into this subject one has an opportunity to: 1) better understand the subject of Identity from a universal perspective 2) notice the 'spectra' of correspondence qualities that allow for 'genesis associations' as 'experienced from responses from actual events in progress- as a 'point of focus' to speculate on the larger question of African aesthetics and value systems 3) look at the subject of form and interaction dynamics (and what value a given formal state might have as for 'inquiring into a unified African vibrational and mental disposition- that could also assist the effort to better understand the subject of Africa from a continental and universal perspective) and finally 4) to better understand the special role of music, and what I call 'vibrational dynamics', in composite African culture and what this subject could mean to trans-African 'vibrational-radiance' as we approach the new millennium. In the first category, the challenge of identity for this paper will involve an attempt to isolate the kind of 'event-action focuses' that took place during an actual festival that happened in Casamance, in --- Africa as a way to look for geo-sonic/image 'qualities'- that in its extended sense can be equated with the primary constructs of tri-metric modeling. The opportunity to explore this idea is possible because Doctor Peter Marks of Wesleyan University has given me access and copies of his video recording collection of Jola initiation ritual re enactment's at the festival of Casamance - this paper is possible only because of a unique opportunity to examine actual video documentation and I tha...
