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. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and a CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text.
- ISBN10 0819566187
- ISBN13 9780819566188
- Publish Date October 2005 (first published 27 October 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Wesleyan University Press
- Edition Audio CD. ed.
- Pages 320
- Language English