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Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

The Wangga of North Australia

by Allan Marett
Publication Date: 27/10/2005

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Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly Region of Northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly 20 years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. With first-hand, in-depth knowledge of Northwest Australia's Aboriginal cultures, Marett provides the reader with a penetrating description and analysis of this compelling musical practice. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and a CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text.
ISBN:
9780819566188
9780819566188
Category:
Anthropology
Publication Date:
27-10-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
254x179.07x21.59mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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