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Title:Jurtbirrk Music Performance ('Love Songs') 08
dvR_040520_A
Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context
Contributor:Bruce
Contributor (consultant):Lindsay
Reuben
Coverage:Australia
Date:2004-05-20
Description:Reuben Arramunika, Lindsay Gameraidj and others perform Jurtbirrk ("Love Songs") at night on the lawn outside of the Minjilang Town Hall. Some Boys dance in the background.
This project documents, in as full a cultural context as is possible, the Iwaidja language of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (Iwaidjan language family, non-Pama-Nyungan), still spoken by around 200 people but under increasing threat from English, as well as recording material from other languages of the region (Marrgu, Ilgar/ Garig, Amurdak and Manangkari) which are all reduced to one or two speakers each. In addition to linguists, the research team will include specialists in ethnomusicology, material culture / archaeology, and social anthropology, and will result in a comprehensive, searchable and browsable sound and video documentation, with Iwaidja transcriptions and subtitles alongside English translations, an Iwaidja dictionary of around 5,000 words, detailed phonetic analysis, and briefer materials on other languages of the area.
Lindsay was born in 1978 in Darwin, and has lived most of his life at Minjilang on Croker Island. Lindsay is one of a younger generation who plays music from two cultures. He composes contemporary music, and sings and plays western instruments in ‘The Bininj Band’, as well as continuing on in the Itpi-itpi tradition of his father Dick, and his grandfather David. He is learning Jurtbirrk from sitting in on song sessions in Minjilang.
Reuben Arramunika was born in 1953 at Wadi, near Araru and Cape Don. He lived at Cape Don as a child, later moving to Minjilang where he attended the mission school along with Ronnie Waraludj. He remains based at Minjilang.
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Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-1478-7
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Publisher:Nicholas Evans
University of Melbourne
Subject:Performance
Music
English language
Iwaidja language
Subject (ISO639):eng
ibd
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Lindsay (consultant); Bruce; Reuben (consultant). 2004-05-20. Nicholas Evans.
Terms: area_Europe area_Pacific country_AU country_GB iso639_eng iso639_ibd

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Country: AustraliaUnited Kingdom
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