Territory Stories

Ghostly Voices: some Observations on Song-Creation, Ceremony and Being in NW Australia

Details:

Title

Ghostly Voices: some Observations on Song-Creation, Ceremony and Being in NW Australia,

Creator

Marrett, Allan,

Collection

IndexNT Magazines, IndexNT, Oceana,,

Date

2000,

Abstract

Wangga songs are given to songmen by ghosts in dreams. By singing these songs in ceremony at Belyuen gain power over the ghosts of the recently dead and thereby conduct them away from human society.,

Subject

Aboriginal culture, Wangga, Maralung, Alan, Barandjak Barrtjap, Tommy, Daly, Northern territory, Lambudju, Bobby, Pport Keats, Peppimenarti,

Series

Oceana,,

Volume

p. 18-28.,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/91852,