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Recirculating Songs

Recirculating Songs

Revitalising the singing practices of Indigenous Australia

Edited by Jim Wafer and Myfany Turpin

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Format: paperback
412 pages
ISBN: 9781761540257

Publication: 01 Jul 2025
Series:


This is the first volume devoted specifically to the revitalisation of ancestral Indigenous singing practices in Australia. These traditions are at severe risk in many parts of the country, and this book investigates the strategies currently being implemented to reverse the damage. In some areas the ancestral musical culture is still transmitted across the generations; in others it is partially remembered, and being revitalised with the assistance of heritage recordings and written documentation; but in many parts of Australia, the transmission of songs has been interrupted, and in those places revitalisation relies on research and restoration. The authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, consider these issues across a broad range of geographical locations, and from a number of different theoretical and methodological angles. The chapters provide helpful insights for Indigenous people and communities, researchers and educators and anyone interested in the song traditions of Indigenous Australia.


Tags: Australian Indigenous Music, Ethnomusicology, Indigenous studies, James Wafer, MUSIC, Myfany Turpin, Other global and regional music styles, World music

Myfany Turpin is an Associate Professor in ethnomusicology and linguistics at 宅男导航 Conservatorium of Music, The University of 宅男导航.

Jim Wafer is a linguist-anthropologist with an honorary appointment in the Discipline of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle. He is the author or co-author of The taste of blood: spirit possession in Brazilian Candombl茅, A handbook of Aboriginal languages of NSW and the ACT and a number of Aboriginal land claim reports.

  • List of figures
  • List of maps
  • List of tables
  • List of musical examples
  • List of audio examples
  • List of video examples
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: everything got a song by Jim Wafer
  1. Maaya waab (play with sound): song language and spoken language in the south-west of Western Australia by Clint Bracknell
  2. Thabi returns: the use of digital resources to recirculate and revitalise Thabi songs in the west Pilbara by Sally Treloyn and Andrew Morumburri Dowding
  3. Ngadiji: for women and men also. A song and dance continuing to be performed by the Yanyuwa of the Gulf area of the Northern Territory by Margaret Sharpe
  4. Finding Arrernte songs by Myfany Turpin
  5. Lone Singers: the others have all gone by Luise Hercus and Grace Koch
  6. Songs performed by Willie Rookwood at Woorabinda in 1965 by Mary Laughren, Myfany Turpin and Gemma Turner
  7. A survey of traditional south-eastern Australian Indigenous music by Barry McDonald
  8. Applying multilingual knowledge to decipher an historical song of change by Raymond Kelly and Jean Harkins
  9. Ghost-writing for Wulatji: incubation and 鈥榬e-dreaming鈥� as song revitalisation practices by Jim Wafer
  10. Finding laka for burdal: song revitalisation at Mornington Island over the past 40 years by Cassy Nancarrow and Peter Cleary
  11. Maintaining song traditions and languages together at Warruwi (western Arnhem Land) by Reuben Brown, David Manmurulu, Jenny Manmurulu, Isabel O鈥橩eeffe and Ruth Singer
  12. Songs that keep ancestral languages alive: a Marrku songset from western Arnhem Land by Reuben Brown and Nicholas Evans
  13. Singing with the ancestors: musical conversations with archived ethnographic recordings by Genevieve Campbell
  14. Children, knowledge, Country: child and youth-based approaches to revitalising musical traditions in the Kimberley by Andrea Emberly, Sally Treloyn and Rona Googninda Charles
  15. Revitalising Meriam Mir through sacred song by Helen Fairweather and Philip Matthias with Toby Whaleboat
  16. Recovering musical data from colonial era transcriptions of Indigenous songs: some practical considerations by Graeme Skinner
  17. A checklist of colonial era musical transcriptions of Australian Indigenous songs by Graeme Skinner and Jim Wafer
  • Index

鈥淥f interest to students and scholars of ethnomusicology, linguistics and anthropology. Recirculating Songs documents the important ongoing collaborations and dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous music researchers, linguists, Indigenous song holders, and between generations of Indigenous performers.鈥� 鈥� Associate Professor Katelyn Barney, University of Queensland

Format: paperback
Size: 254 x 178 mm
Pages: 412
ISBN: 9781761540257
Publication: 01 Jul 2025
Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts
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