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Singing Bones: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

by Samuel Curkpatrick
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781761540950
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sydney University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Sydney University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 238
  • Original Price: GBP 43.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 776 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Genres & Styles / 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 W�gilak 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 yolŋu (people) to dance. In song, community is established. By song, the past enfolds the present. Today, the unique voices of W�gilak 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

Curkpatrick, Samuel: - Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher and musician with a particular interest in intercultural collaboration and Indigenous Australian music. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, and teaches at Stirling Theological College, University of Divinity.

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