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Arriving, digging, performing, returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia
Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Blythe, Joe; Walsh, MichaelPublished 2007-01-01This article covers issues around song language interpretation and documentation in relation to a djanba song in Murriny Patha language composed by Lawrence Kolumboort (djanba 11).Open AccessBook chapter -
Baartjap's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01From the 1950s to the 1980s, Barrtjap (Tommy Burrenjuck, c. 1925–1992) was a ritual leader and one of the most prominent singers/composers in Belyuen (Delissaville), one of the heartlands of the wangga tradition. The ...Open AccessOther -
Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Walsh, Michael; Reid, Nicholas; Ford, LysbethPublished 2005-01-01Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the ...Open AccessArticle -
Endangered songs and endangered languages.
Marett, Allan; Barwick, LindaPublished 2003-01-01It is widely reported in Australia and elsewhere that songs are considered by culture bearers to be the “crown jewels” of endangered cultural heritages whose knowledge systems have hitherto been maintained without the aid ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Lambudju's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01Bobby Lane Lambudju (1941–1993) was a leading Wadjiginy songman at Belyuen in the late 1980s and early 1990s whose songs display a rich variety of forms, diverse melodies and even mixes of languages (his own language, ...Open AccessOther -
Ma-Yawa Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01The Ma-yawa wangga repertory was given to songmen by the Marri Ammu ancestral ghosts known as Ma-yawa. Before the late 1960s, it seems that this repertory was frequently performed at Wadeye, but nowadays Marri Ammu people ...Open AccessOther -
Mandji's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01Billy Mandji was a prolific and popular Belyuen songman. Active from the 1960s to the 1980s, he travelled widely and was recorded in Kununurra, Timber Creek, Oenpelli and Beswick Creek as well as his home community of ...Open AccessOther -
Mirrwana and wurrkama: applying an Indigenous knowledge framework to collaborative research on ceremonies
Ford, Payi Linda; Barwick, Linda; Marett, AllanPublished 2014-01-01This chapter outlines how Ford, Barwick and Marett have collaborated to develop, implement, and critically evaluate a research project that integrates and remains true to both Indigenous and western academic knowledge ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Muluk's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01Jimmy Muluk (born c. 1925, died sometime before 1986) was one of the great wangga songmen, whose musical virtuosity and love of diversity and variation are exceeded by no other singer. A Mendheyangal man, he held traditional ...Open AccessOther -
Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song
Marett, Allan; Barwick, LindaPublished 2007-01-01This article serves as an introduction to the special issue 'Studies in Aboriginal Song' edited by Marett and Barwick. Since 1984, numerous collections of essays dedicated entirely or partly to Aboriginal song and dance ...Open AccessArticle -
The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia: year one in review
Marett, Allan; Yunupingu, Mandawuy; Langton, Marcia; Gumbula, Neparrŋa; Barwick, Linda; Corn, AaronPublished 2006-01-01The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia was conceived at Gunyangara in Arnhem Land during the inaugural Indigenous Performance Symposium in August 2002. The symposium was funded by the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Preface
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2013-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Prelims
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2013-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Sound recordings as maruy among the Aborigines of the Daly region of north west Australia
Marett, AllanPublished 2004-01-01This paper reflects on a set of anxieties concerning the relationship between living traditions of song and dance and the body of audio recordings of these traditions that have been generated in the course of my research. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Walakandha Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01For the last 40 years or so, the Walakandha wangga, a repertory composed collaboratively by a number of Marri Tjavin singers, has been the most prominent wangga performed in Wadeye. Initiated in the mid-1960s by Stan ...Open AccessOther
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