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

Argues that the power gained by Australia's Aboriginal Belyuen songmen over ghosts is attributable to the replication of the melodies, rhythms, words, and the voice of the song-giving ghost. Songmen's receiving of the 'Wangga' songs from ghosts in dreams; Power to conduct the ghost of the recently dead away from human society; Facilitation in the adaptation of new patterns of residency.