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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

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(This) eloquent text makes excellent use of music and emotion as intellectual vehicles to interpret cultural life. (...) Melodies of Mourning will be especially valuable to those interested in the ethnographies of Aboriginal and Islander Australia, musicology, cultural ecology, and the anthropology of emotion. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The achievements of Melodies of Mourning are many...) It presents a detailed ethnographic account of a Yolngu song tradition that will be welcomed by disciplines of both anthropology and musicology....An important book to bn that will be welcomed by disciplines of both anthropology and musicology....An important book to be recommended to readers with an interest in northern Australia

(This) eloquent text makes excellent use of music and emotion as intellectual vehicles to interpret cultural life. (...) Melodies of Mourning will be especially valuable to those interested in the ethnographies of Aboriginal and Islander Australia, musicology, cultural ecology, and the anthropology of emotion. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The achievements of Melodies of Mourning are many...) It presents a detailed ethnographic account of a Yolngu song tradition that will be welcomed by disciplines of both anthropology and musicology....An important book to be recommended to readers with an interest in northern Australian music and, more broadly, to readers with an interest in musicology and anthropology. ANTHROPOS

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Fiona Magowan is a lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast

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