Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia

Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly region of northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly twenty years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single majo…