Afterlife Before Genesis is the final volume in a trilogy that began with Life Before Genesis
and was followed by Return to Eden . Here David H. Turner focusses on what the Aborigines of
the Groote Eylandt area of northern Australia take to be the foundations of their way of life
namely musical Forms. Their music like their way of life incarnates from Nothing as
differences (songLines) which are renounced from owners to non-owners to connect rather than
divide. This music is a complex polyphonic interplay of didjereedoo (their hollow log
instrument) and voice which not only transcends but also heals. This the author documents by
recounting how he learned to play the didjereedoo.
