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Singing bones : ancestral creativity and collaboration

Title
Singing bones : ancestral creativity and collaboration / Samuel Curkpatrick.
Author
Curkpatrick, Samuel
Publication
[Sydney, New South Wales] : Sydney University Press, 2020.

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Description
xiv, 222 pages : illustrations, maps, music; 26 cm.
Summary
Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and shaping relationships between people and the country. Singing Bones foregrounds the voices of manikay singers from Ngukurr in southeastern Arnhem Land, and charts their critically acclaimed collaboration with jazz musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra, Crossing Roper Bar. It offers an overview of Wagilak manikay narratives and style, including their social, ceremonial and linguistic aspects, and explores the Crossing Roper Bar project as an example of creative intercultural collaboration and a continuation of the manikay tradition.
Series Statement
Indigenous music of Australia
Uniform Title
Indigenous music of Australia.
Subject
  • Australian Art Orchestra
  • Young Wagilak Group
  • Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > History and criticism
  • Folk music > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > History and criticism
  • Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Music > History and criticism
  • Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Social life and customs
  • Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Rites and ceremonies
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Aboriginal Australians > Rites and ceremonies
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Folk singers
  • Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian
  • Northern Territory
  • Northern Territory > Arnhem Land
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197), discography (pages 199-200) and index.
Contents
Impelled : songs from the ground -- Connected in song -- Abundant articulation : the living text of manikay -- Narrative constellations -- Singing bones : "those clapping sticks have a song" -- Grooving together : the Crossing Roper Bar collaboration -- Interwoven voices : a brillian aesthetic -- Collaboration and creativity.
Call Number
JMF 21-192
ISBN
  • 9781743326770
  • 1743326777
LCCN
2020438614
OCLC
1149623374
Author
Curkpatrick, Samuel, author.
Title
Singing bones : ancestral creativity and collaboration / Samuel Curkpatrick.
Publisher
[Sydney, New South Wales] : Sydney University Press, 2020.
Type of Content
text
still image
notated music
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Indigenous music of Australia
Indigenous music of Australia.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197), discography (pages 199-200) and index.
Research Call Number
JMF 21-192
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