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Melodies of Mourning. Music & Emotion in Northern Australia.

Publication: Oceania
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Melodies of Mourning. Music & Emotion in Northern Australia.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Melodies of Mourning. Music & Emotion in Northern Australia

By Fiona Magowan.

Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007

Pp:xvii + 222

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To start for once with the conclusion: this is an excellent anthropological work that explores how in a fully functioning Aboriginal society a sensory awareness of the environment shapes an ancestral cosmology of song and sentiments and how these cultural performances are understood in a Christian context.

Although Fiona Magowan explains that the focus of her book is on women's funeral laments, a ritual genre in which emotions are expressed in so called women's crying songs, the subjects she deals with are much wider.

Taking these women's crying songs as a starting point she investigates a broad spectrum of themes that go beyond this specific subject: the place of ecology in...

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