Songlines author-stephen--turnbull running through history

running through history

This volume is the ultimate guide to the artists and the music that made Verve great and jazz cool

but who remains a potent influence on artists and filmmakers today

tombs and burial mounds

Songlines author-stephen--turnbull running through historySonglines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australias many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers