Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts
Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

Author: Allan Marett

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0819569348

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A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia's Aboriginal people. Winner of the Stanner Award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies (2006) Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly Region of Northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly 20 years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. With first-hand, in-depth knowledge of Northwest Australia's Aboriginal cultures, Marett provides the reader with a penetrating description and analysis of this compelling musical practice. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and links to a web-based virtual CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text, at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/wanggacd/.

Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Author: Georgia Curran

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1789206073

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As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, the book lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.

Songs of Central Australia
Songs of Central Australia

Author: Theodor George Henry Strehlow

Publisher: Angus & Robertson Publishers

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13:

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This is Strehlow's most widely regarded work and the culmination of his anthropological work related to the Aranda (Arunta) people of the Alice Springs region. In this work Strehlow records the patrilineal chants or songs of the Aranda people and puts them into a wider context of totemic cultural understanding. Of particular interest is Chapter 10, the love songs of the Aranda people, which pre-date European romantic conventions by several thousand years.

Recirculating Songs
Recirculating Songs

Author: James William Wafer

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780994586315

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Print edition of multi-author work on Indigenous song. This is the first volume devoted specifically to the revitalisation of ancestral Indigenous singing practices in Australia. These traditions are at severe risk in many parts of the country, and this book investigates the strategies currently being implemented to reverse the damage. In some areas the ancestral musical culture is still transmitted across the generations; in others it is partially remembered, and being revitalised with the assistance of heritage recording and written documentation; but in many parts of Australia, the transmission of songs has been interrupted, and in those places revitalisation relies on research and restoration. The authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, consider these issues across a broad range of geographical locations, and from a number of different theoretical and methodological angles. The chapters provide helpful insights for Indigenous people and communities, researchers and educators, and anyone interested in the song traditions of Indigenous Australia.

Songspirals
Songspirals

Author: Gay'wu Group of Women

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1760871931

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Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction. 'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.' Aboriginal Australian cultures are the oldest living cultures on earth and at the heart of Aboriginal cultures is song. These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map, but they are much, much more than this. Songspirals are sung by Aboriginal people to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. Songspirals are radically different ways of understanding the relationship people can have with the landscape. For Yolngu people from North East Arnhem Land, women and men play different roles in bringing songlines to life, yet the vast majority of what has been published is about men's place in songlines. Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form. 'Songspirals are Life. These are cultural words from wise women. As an Aboriginal woman this is profound to learn. As a human being Songspirals is an absolute privilege to read.' - Ali Cobby Eckermann, Yankunytjatjara poet 'To read Songspirals is to change the way you see, think and feel this country.' - Clare Wright, award-winning historian and author 'A rare and intimate window into traditional women's cultural life and their visceral connection to Country. A generous invitation for the rest of us.' - Kerry O'Brien, Walkley Award-winning journalist

The Memory Code
The Memory Code

Author: Lynne Kelly

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1681773821

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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world. In turn, she has then discovered that this ancient memory technique is the secret purpose behind the great prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge, which have puzzled archaeologists for so long.The henges across northern Europe, the elaborate stone houses of New Mexico, huge animal shapes in Peru, the statues of Easter Island—these all serve as the most effective memory system ever invented by humans. They allowed people in non-literate cultures to memorize the vast amounts of information they needed to survive. But how?For the first time, Dr. Kelly unlocks the secret of these monuments and their uses as "memory places" in her fascinating book. Additionally, The Memory Code also explains how we can use this ancient mnemonic technique to train our minds in the tradition of our forbearers.

For the Sake of a Song
For the Sake of a Song

Author: Allan Marett

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1743326211

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Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the song

Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places

Author: Peter Dunbar-Hall

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780868406220

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A comprehensive book on contemporary Aboriginal music in Australia.

Wanjoo
Wanjoo

Author: Gina Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780995431201

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Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Songs of Aboriginal Australia

Author: Margaret Clunies Ross

Publisher: Institute of Criminology, Sydney

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Research into Aboriginal songs; examples from many parts of Australia; for detailed annotation see entries under contributors Margaret Clunies Ross, Tamsin Donaldson, Grace Koch, John von Sturmer, Peter Sutton, Stephen A. Wild, Guy Tunstill, Francesca Merlan and Ronald M. Berndt.