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Singing Bones : Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

SKU: 9781743326770
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  • Author:
    CURKPATRICK Samuel
  • ISBN:
    9781743326770
  • Publication Date:
    01/06/2020
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    220
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Sydney University Press
  • Country of Publication:
Singing Bones : Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration
Singing Bones : Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

Singing Bones : Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

SKU: 9781743326770
Regular price $54.99
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    CURKPATRICK Samuel
  • ISBN:
    9781743326770
  • Publication Date:
    01/06/2020
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    220
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Sydney University Press
  • Country of Publication:

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Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.

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 Wagilak 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 continuation of the manikay tradition.

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  • Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.

    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 Wagilak 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 continuation of the manikay tradition.

Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.

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 Wagilak 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 continuation of the manikay tradition.