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

Book details

• Full title: Singing Bones
• Subtitle: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration
• Author: Samuel Curkpatrick
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 238
• EAN: 9781761540950
• ISBN: 1761540955
• ID: 53044893
• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Weight: 779 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2020

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