Browsing PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) by subject "Aboriginal music"
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Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: bringing language and music together
Published 2007-01-01Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musi- cians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that ...Open AccessArticle -
Marri Ngarr lirrga songs: a musicological analysis of song pairs in performance
Published 2006-01-01This article discusses a set of lirrga songs performed for Allan Marett on 1 October 1998 at Wadeye in Australia's Northern Territory by a group of senior Marri Ngarr men comprising the singers and composers Pius Luckan ...Open AccessArticle -
Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song
Published 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 -
Performance, aesthetics, experience: thoughts on Yawulyu mungamunga songs
Published 2005-01-01In 2000 a CD of Warumungu women’s Yawulyu Mungamunga songs was published by Festival records (Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Language and Culture Centre & Barwick, 2000, 479), and launched in Tennant Creek and in Sydney at ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Tempo bands, metre and rhythmic mode in Marri Ngarr 'Church Lirrga' songs
Published 2003-01-01During the 1970s, the Marri Ngarr composer Pius Luckan and his brother Clement Tchinburur created a set of liturgical songs ('churcb lirrga') based on the didjeridu-accompanied dance-song genre Lirrga, one of several public ...Open AccessArticle -
Unison and "disagreement" in a mixed women's and men's performance from the Ellis collection, Oodnadatta, 1966
Published 1995-01-01This chapter explores the nature of musical 'disagreements' in a performance of the Kungka Kutjara (Two Women) performed by Antikirinya women and men at Oodnadatta in 1966, recorded by Catherine Ellis. Although unisonic ...Open AccessBook chapter