Title: Afterlife before Genesis : an introduction : accessing the eternal through Australian Aboriginal music /
Authors: Turner, David H.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians Religion; Aboriginal Australians Music History and criticism.; Folk music Australia History and criticism.; Didjeridu.
Abstract: 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.