Singing bones : ancestral creativity and collaboration / Samuel Curkpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curkpatrick, Samuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian Art Orchestra.

Young Wagilak Group.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land--Music.

Aboriginal Australians.

Music festivals.

Australia.

Northern Territory.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Arnhem Land--Rites and ceremonies.

Rites and ceremonies.

Artistic collaboration.

Music festivals--Australia--Northern Territory.

Folk singers.

Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian.

Northern Territory--Arnhem Land.

Genre:

Music.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 222 pages : illustrations, maps, notated music ; 26 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

[Sydney, N.S.W.] : Sydney University Press, 2020.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781743326770

1743326777

OCLC:

1149623374

Publisher Number:

99984764381