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20061110NJXX

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-0F92-4

Title: 20061110NJXX

Description: Discussion about Mamurrng ceremonies at Warruwi, 10 November 2006. Some of the discussion relates to the Nginji Mamurrng that was happening that week. The discussion relates more generally to the Mamurrng ceremonies - the performance contexts for various different song sets at different times. Other parts of the discussion are not related to song-sets or to the Nginji mamurrng at all.

Date created: 2006-11-10

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Region: Western Arnhem Land

Address: Warruwi

Project

ID: Rausing MDP0139

Name: Western Arnhem Land Song Project

Description: The classical song traditions of Western Arnhem Land are amongst the foremost examples of verbal art in the nine endangered languages of the region, but few people are now competent to perform or comment on them. Typically performed in multi-lingual social contexts, song texts demonstrate unusual linguistic features such as mixtures of languages and a high proportion of esoteric and intimate vocabulary. We will collect, transcribe, translate and analyse song texts and discussions about songs by contemporary performers, and where relevant repatriate and document archival recordings, making our research results available to communities via a network of local digital repositories.

Content

Genre: Singing

Languages

Language

Name: Kun-barlang

Description: Kun-barlang is a language of the Gunwinyguan family, spoken along the stretch of coast and hinterland west of Maningrida and opposite the Goulburn Islands. There are, on a rough estimate, around 50 remaining speakers, though this needs confirmation. As the only Gunwingyuan language with a coastal location it has undergone some interesting contact influence from languages of the Iwaidjan and Maningrida families.

Language

Name: English

Description: English is the national language of Australia. However for people in Aboriginal Communities it is often a second or third language.

Actor

Full Name: Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe

Role: Recording engineer

Actor

Full Name: Gargarba Tommy

Role: Speaker

Actor

Full Name: Mawuli Shirley

Role: Speaker

Actor

Full Name: Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe

Role: Interviewer

Media Files

Filename: 20061110IB01.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-0F93-9

File type: Audio

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