| Afterlife Before Genesis: An Introduction: Accessing the Eternal Through Australian Aboriginal Music Contributor(s): Wiebe, Donald (Editor), Turner, David H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820434779 ISBN-13: 9780820434773 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 781.629 |
| LCCN: 96038538 |
| Series: Toronto Studies in Religion (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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." |