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Title:20061018MM
Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Dempsey Jescoe
Reeders Elanor
O'Keeffe Matthew
Contributor (singer):Gandadila Terry
Moscow Joe
Coverage:Australia
Date:2006-10-18
Description:Murrungun manikay sung by Joe Moscow and Terry Gandadila accompanied by Jescoe Dempsey on didjeridu for a public funeral ceremony at Warruwi, 18 October 2006. These Murrungun performers had travelled to Warruwi especially to perform for the funeral ceremony. Most of the Warruwi community was present at the funeral.
The classical song traditions of Western Arnhem Land are amongst the foremost examples of verbal art in the nine endangered languages of the region, but few people are now competent to perform or comment on them. Typically performed in multi-lingual social contexts, song texts demonstrate unusual linguistic features such as mixtures of languages and a high proportion of esoteric and intimate vocabulary. We will collect, transcribe, translate and analyse song texts and discussions about songs by contemporary performers, and where relevant repatriate and document archival recordings, making our research results available to communities via a network of local digital repositories.
Isabel Bickerdike is a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Linda Barwick and Nick Evans. She was aged 25 in 2006 and was resident at Warruwi from May-November 2006. She is Ngal-bangardi skin, Wurrik clan (Kun-winjku tribe?, given by Mary Gurden-gurden, this is her mother\'s clan).
Joe Moscow is a Djinang man from Maningrida and a singer of Murrungun (Djinang) manikay (Yolngu clan songs).
Elanor Reeders is a linguist who was working on Yolngu languages at ARDS (Aboriginal Resource and Development Service) in Darwin in 2006. She visited Warruwi for a week in 2006 to work on Galpu manikay texts with Galpu people resident at Warruwi
Matthew O\'Keeffe is the pilot resident at Warruwi and a friend of Solomon Ganawa. From time to time he can be heard during this session talking to Solomon.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052256
Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1052256%23
Publisher:Linda Barwick
University of Sydney
Subject:Singing
Murrungun manikay MM
Undetermined language
Djinang
Subject (ISO639):und
Type:Audio

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Citation: Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe; Gandadila Terry (singer); Moscow Joe (singer); Dempsey Jescoe; Reeders Elanor; O'Keeffe Matthew. 2006-10-18. Linda Barwick.
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