OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-D1E0-0

Metadata
Title:		ldalha kalajbari singing at Max Davidson's safari camp
		IW20030809KA
		Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context
Contributor:		Reggie
Contributor (recorder):		Bruce Birch
Contributor (singer):		Archie
		Cookie
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2003-07-29
Description:		Twenty-two kalajbari 'frigate bird' song items recorded by Bruce Birch at night at Max Davidson's safari camp. The performance was preceded by a session of Jurtbirrk songs (see session IW20030809JU).
		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.
		This session contains 22 Ldalha song items recorded on video at night by Bruce Birch. Because of the quality of the video no mpeg file has been created, but a 16-bit 44khz WAV file was created, from individual 16-bit 44.1 khz WAV files were excerpted for the individual song items.
		The song texts are said to be in Iwaidja but the words, which are always sung the same, are vocables. This type of song language was described by Bryan Yambikbik in English as 'sing and call', or 'only name'. The discussion between the song items is in Iwaidja and English.
		Archie Brown led the singing, with David Minyamak as backup singer and Reggie Cooper playing didjeridu. Bruce Birch recorded on DV.
		[potted biography of Archie to be added],
		Cookie is a native speaker of Iwaidja, although his father language is Amurdak. His country is on Cobourg and he has an outstation at Black Point. From his description that he was a little boy during the second world war we can assume he was born in the thirties and is now (2003) probably in his late sixties, or around seventy. The name "Cookie" originated from his time as a cook (several years) at Waak. He has no children. It seems he had leprosy as a child.
		DV tape recorded by Bruce Birch. 2 jurtpirrk songs were performed at the beginning of this tape (see session IW20030809JU). No mpeg file created, but a WAV file was extracted, from which individual WAV files have been excerpted for each song.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-D1E0-0
		IW
Publisher:		Nicholas Evans
		University of Melbourne
Subject:		Singing
		Chorus
		Unspecified
		Iwaidja language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		ibd
		eng
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-D1E0-0
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Archie (singer); Cookie (singer); Reggie; Bruce Birch (recorder). 2003-07-29. Nicholas Evans.
Terms:		area_Europe area_Pacific country_AU country_GB iso639_eng iso639_ibd
Inferred Metadata
Country:		AustraliaUnited Kingdom
Area:		EuropePacific