Singing Bones: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

ISBN: 9781743326770 (1743326777)
Edition Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Pages: 220
Date Published: 1st Jun 2020
Series: Indigenous Music of Australia

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Collaboration
Preface
Glossary
Introduction Impelled: songs from the ground Connected in song Abundant articulation: the living text of Manikay Narrative constellations Living bones: aThose clapping sticks have a songa Grooving together: the Crossing Roper Bar collaboration Interwoven
Bibliography Discography
Appendix 1: song texts
Appendix 2: Young WAgilak group tour and performance history
Index

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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 WÃ¤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 yolÅu (people) to dance. In song, community is established. By song, the past enfolds the present. Today, the unique voices of WÃ¤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.

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