Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia

ISBN: 9780852559925 (0852559925)
Edition Type: Paperback
Publisher: James Currey
Pages: 288
Date Published: 1st May 2007

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Introduction
Song, sense & sentiment
Changing cultural rhythms
Ecologies of song
Performing emotions
Seeing in sound
Embodying ancestors
Crying for Jesus
Unifying religious experiences
Senses of empathy
Notes on orthography
Glossary
Appendix
References.

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Presents an ethnographical account of the way that song, dance and musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community of Australia. Invites the reader to rethink the place of ecology in music and emotion, and how emotions transcend cultural difference. It shows how sounds and the senses shape feelings for the land and seascape, exploring these themes in relation to Yolngu of north east Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. This rich ethnographic study makes a distinctive contribution to the tradition of anthropological analysis which focuses on the located nature of human sensual experience. FIONA MAGOWAN is a lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast Series editors: Wendy James and N. J. Allen Australia: University of Western Australia Press

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