Biblical songs have multiple afterlives.
In a history of invasion, their reverberations are poignant.
What is now called Australia is a continent of many First Nations where Country has been sung for tens of thousands of years before the Bible arrived as part of the cultural cargo of the colonisers.
Reading the Magnificat in Australia focuses on one text, Mary's Magnificat, around two thousand years old in its Lukan form, and carrying Hebraic traditions some thousand or more years older.
Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd Reading the magnificat in australia: unsettling engagements, hardcover/anne f. elvey
