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Title: | Singing Bones | ||
| Sub-title: | Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration | |||
| By (author): | Samuel Curkpatrick | |||
| ISBN10-13: | 1743326777 : 9781743326770 | |||
| Format: | Paperback | |||
| Size: | 255x180mm | |||
| Pages: | 0 | |||
| Weight: | .420 Kg. | |||
| Published: | Sydney University Press - June 2020 | |||
| List Price: | 30.00 Pounds Sterling | |||
| Availability: | In Stock Qty Available: 6 | |||
| Subjects: | Music: styles & genres : Jazz | |||
| 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 Wägilak 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 living continuation of the manikay tradition. Through song, the ancestral past animates the present, moving yol u (people) to dance. In song, community is established. By song, the past enfolds the present. Today, the unique voices of Wägilak resound over the ancestral ground and water, carried by the songs of old. Audio examples are available at: https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/singing-bones.html | ||||
| Table of Contents: | ||||
| Collaboration Preface Glossary Introduction
Bibliography Discography Appendix 1: song texts Appendix 2: Young Wägilak group tour and performance history Index |
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| Awards / Prizes: | ||||
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021 | ||||
| Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021 | ||||
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