Singing Bones: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration
Awards:   Nominated for Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021 (United States) Nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021 (Australia) Winner of Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021 Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021
Author:   Samuel Curkpatrick ,  Linda Barwick
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
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9781743326770


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   02 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Nominated for Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021 (United States)
  • Nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021 (Australia)
  • Winner of Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021
  • Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021

Overview

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 Wgilak 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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Author:   Samuel Curkpatrick ,  Linda Barwick
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781743326770


ISBN 10:   1743326777
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   02 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Collaboration Preface Glossary Introduction Impelled: songs from the ground Connected in song Abundant articulation: the living text of Manikay Narrative constellations Living bones: “Those clapping sticks have a song” Grooving together: the Crossing Roper Bar collaboration Interwoven voices: a brilliant aesthetic Playing together: collaboration and creativity Epilogue: new friendships Bibliography Discography Appendix 1: song texts Appendix 2: Young Wägilak group tour and performance history Index

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Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher and musician with a particular interest in intercultural collaboration and Indigenous Australian music. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, and teaches at Stirling Theological College, University of Divinity.

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