Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia

$35.00

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. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and links to a web-based virtual CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text.

Publisher: Weslyan University Press
Date Published: 2005
Book Condition: Very good softcover with some minor surface and edge wear to covers. Previous owner’s name stamped on the inside of front cover, the half-title page and on the outer book edge. There are some notes and underlining in pencil throughout the text. Contains a CD in the plastic sleeve inside the back cover.

ISBN: 0804747385

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