Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

Georgia Curran (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789206074 (ISBN)

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Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony.

As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, the book lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.

Georgia Curran is an anthropologist with interests in Indigenous music, languages and rituals. She lived in the Central Australian desert settlement of Yuendumu between 2005-2007 and has since continued to work on collaborative research projects with Warlpiri people. She is currently a research associate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

List of Illustrations, Maps and Figures
Foreword by Otto Jungarrayi Simms
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. Song and ceremony in Indigenous Australia
Chapter 2. Yuendumu: a brief social history
Chapter 3. Warlpiri songs: rights, genres and ceremonial contexts
Chapter 4. Kurdiji, a ceremony for 'making young men'
Chapter 5. Holding Warlpiri songs: addressing musical endangerment

Conclusion

Appendix of songs from the Kurdiji ceremony
Glossary of Warlpiri words
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781789206074 / 9781789206074
Zustand	Neuware