Author: MAGOWAN, Fiona.
Title: Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia.
Description: University of Western Australia Press & James Currey Ltd, 2007. Paperback, Condition vg. In the context of the Yolngu of north east Arnhem Land, it considers ecology in music and how emotions transcend cultural differences. It shows how sounds and the senses shape feelings for the landscape and seascape and argues that strings of performative emotion are gendered in ritual. 222pp. ISBN 9871920694999.

Keywords: Ancestors ancestral Arnhem Australia belonging Christian cultural culture dancing Ecologies Embodying Emotions Empathy environment land landscape Northern performed Performing place religious Rhythms ritual ritualised seascape Seeing senses sentiments sin