Afterlife Before Genesis: An Introduction : Accessing the Eternal Through Australian Aboriginal Music

David H. Turner

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
1 July 1997
Pages
267
ISBN
9780820434773

Afterlife Before Genesis: An Introduction : Accessing the Eternal Through Australian Aboriginal Music

David H. Turner

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.

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