Reflections and Voices
Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupingu
Published on 30. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-1-920899-34-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reflections and Voices takes readers on a captivating journey with Yothu Yindu and their lead singer and songwriter, Mandawuy Yunupingu. Locating the band within a continuum of traditional practice that records the beauty of Arnhem Land as experienced by Mandawuy's ancestors, and has guided local engagements with visitors from across the Arafura Sea for countless centuries. It also reveals how Mandawuy's work as an educator and musician championed the continuing importance of traditional Indigenous thought and practice to contemporary life in Australia.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
A5: Tankobon
Illustrations
2 b&w ill., 51 col. ill., contains musical notations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-920899-34-9 (9781920899349)
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Persons
Aaron Corn is the director of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) and the National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS) at the University of Adelaide.
Content
Foreword
Allan Marett
Preface
Mandawuy Yunupi?u and Galarrwuy Yunupi?u
Acknowledgements
A note on orthography
Introduction
Reflections
1. A band with a vision
2. Who are the Yol?u?
3. Child and mother
4. Voices of eternity
5. Visitors from abroad
6. Resistance on the frontier
7. The struggle for justice
8. Hope for the future
A legacy of hope
Voices
1. 'Djaepana: sunset dreaming'
2. 'Mainstream'
3. 'Treaty'
4. 'Tribal voice'
5. 'Timeless land'
6. 'World turning'
7. 'Dots on the shells'
8. 'Ghost spirits'
Conclusions
Dancing trees: an epilogue
Marcia Langton
Glossary
Discography
Chronology
References
About the authors
Allan Marett
Preface
Mandawuy Yunupi?u and Galarrwuy Yunupi?u
Acknowledgements
A note on orthography
Introduction
Reflections
1. A band with a vision
2. Who are the Yol?u?
3. Child and mother
4. Voices of eternity
5. Visitors from abroad
6. Resistance on the frontier
7. The struggle for justice
8. Hope for the future
A legacy of hope
Voices
1. 'Djaepana: sunset dreaming'
2. 'Mainstream'
3. 'Treaty'
4. 'Tribal voice'
5. 'Timeless land'
6. 'World turning'
7. 'Dots on the shells'
8. 'Ghost spirits'
Conclusions
Dancing trees: an epilogue
Marcia Langton
Glossary
Discography
Chronology
References
About the authors