For the sake of a song : Wangga songmen and their repertories / Allan Marett, Linda Barwick, Lysbeth Julie Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marett, Allan, author.

Barwick, Linda, author.

Ford, Lysbeth Julie, author.

Series:

Indigenous music of Australia ; volume 2.

Indigenous music of Australia ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians.

Ethnology--Australia.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

For the Sake of a Song

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : University of Sydney, 2013.

Summary:

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 songs for their own communities and for the general public over the past 50 years. The book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa wangga groups, the repertories being named after the ancestral song-giving ghosts of the Marri Tjavin and Marri Ammu people respectively.

Contents:

A social history of Wangga

The music and dance conventions of Wangga

The language of Wangga

Barrtjap's repertory

Muluk's repertory

Mandji's repertory

Lambudju's repertory

The Walakandha Wangga repertory

The Ma-Yawa Wangga repertory.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74332-765-X

1-74332-621-1