Afterlife Before Genesis: An Introduction: Accessing the Eternal Through Australian Aboriginal Music
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Book Overview
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. 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820434779
ISBN13:9780820434773
Release Date:July 1997
Publisher:Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Length:270 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
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A challenging book.
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This brave and seminal work takes the reader into the world of music of a Northern Aboriginal community giving the reader an insight into aboriginal culture that can only be had through an understanding of their musical tradition. This is the most thorough analysis of an aboriginal musical tradition ever carried out, through an analysis of not only the songs but the tunes that carry them. This highly scientific and academically rigorous book undoes the less than scientific tendancy to force the unknown into easy conventional categories
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