ISBN:
0820434779
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 267 S.
,
Ill., Kt., Notenbeisp.
Series Statement:
Toronto studies in religion 22
Series Statement:
Toronto studies in religion
DDC:
781.629915
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians Music
;
History and criticism
;
Aboriginal Australians Religion
;
Didjeridu
;
Folk music History and criticism
;
Geschichte
;
Aborigines
;
Religion
;
Musik
;
Groote Eylandt
;
Arnhemland
;
Aborigines
;
Musik
;
Aborigines
;
Religion
;
Aborigines
;
Musik
;
Groote Eylandt
;
Geschichte
;
Aborigines
;
Musik
;
Arnhemland
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Afterlife Before Genesis is the final volume in a trilogy that began with Life Before Genesis and was followed by Return to Eden. Here David H. Turner focusses on what the Aborigines of the Groote Eylandt area of northern Australia take to be the foundations of their way of life, namely musical Forms. Their music, like their way of life, incarnates from "Nothing" as differences (songLines) which are "renounced" from "owners" to "non-owners" to connect rather than divide
Abstract:
This music is a complex polyphonic interplay of didjereedoo (their hollow log instrument) and voice which not only transcends but also heals. This the author documents by recounting how he learned to play the didjereedoo
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