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

by David H. Turner

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...

• 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.

Customer Reviews

A challenging book.

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