Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern 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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Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern 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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Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia

Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia

by Fiona Magowan
Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia

Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia

by Fiona Magowan

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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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781930618909
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date: 04/24/2007
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
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