Reflections and Voices : Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupingu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corn, Aaron.

Contributor:

Langton, Marcia, 1951-

Series:

Indigenous Music of Australia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yothu Yindi (Musical group).

Yunupingu, Mandawuy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reflections and Voices

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Reflections and Voices takes readers on a captivating journey with Yothu Yindu and their lead singer and songwriter, Mandawuy Yunupingu. Locating the band within a continuum of traditional practice that records the beauty of Arnhem Land as experienced by Mandawuy's ancestors, and has guided local engagements with visitors from across the Arafura Sea for countless centuries. It also reveals how Mandawuy's work as an educator and musician championed the continuing importance of traditional Indigenous thought and practice to contemporary life in Australia.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

contents

foreword

preface

acknowledgements

a note on orthography

introduction

reflections

a band with a vision

who are the Yolŋu?

child and mother

voices of eternity

visitors from abroad

resistance on the frontier

the struggle for justice

hope for the future

a legacy of hope

voices

'Djäpana: Sunset Dreaming'

'Mainstream'

'Treaty'

'Tribal Voice'

'Timeless Land'

'World Turning'

'Dots on the Shells'

'Ghosts Spirits'

conclusion

dancing trees: an epilogue

appendices

glossary

discography

chronology

references

about the authors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781743328255

1743328257

OCLC:

1266907531