Songlines, also called Dreaming tracks by Indigenous Australians, are an ancient cultural concept and motif perpetuated through oral lore and singing and other storytelling modalities such as dance and painting. Songlines are an intricate series of song cycles that identify landmarks and subtle tracking mechanisms for navigation. Each songline has a particular direction or vector, and walking the wrong way along a songline may be sacrilegious act, as at, for example, climbing up Uluru when the c… (More on Songlines) |