Songlines author-stephen--turnbull Shamans communicated with the spirits

Shamans communicated with the spirits

and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses

but who remains a potent influence on artists and filmmakers today

In the 1930s and 1940s

Songlines author-stephen--turnbull Shamans communicated with the spiritsSonglines 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