OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052199

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Title:		20061019NGIL
		Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
		Manmurulu Rupert
		O'Keeffe Matthew
		Reeders Elanor
Contributor (singer):		Manmurulu David, Winunguj
		Nawoloinjba Billy
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2006-10-19
Description:		Seven Nganaru songs (Manangkarri spirit language) performed by Billy Nawoloinjba and other unidentified singers. The instrumentalist (didjeridu) is also unidentified. Two Inyjalarrku songs performed by David and Rupert Manmurulu (didjeridu) and other unidentified signers are also included in this session. The songs were performed as part of a the penultimate night at a funeral ceremony at Warruwi (for Bunug's wife).
		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.
		Isabel Bickerdike is a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Linda Barwick and Nick Evans. She was aged 25 in 2006 and was resident at Warruwi from May-November 2006. She is Ngal-bangardi skin, Wurrik clan (Kun-winjku tribe?, given by Mary Gurden-gurden, this is her mother\'s clan).
		David Manmurulu (also known as David \"Goodness\" Manmurulu Winunguj) is aged circa 60 and resident at Warruwi in 2006. He is the current leader of the inyjalarrku songs. His skin is Na-wamut and he is Yalama clan and Ngutikin tribe. His father (d. 1990s) was George Winunguj who features in the book Encounter at Nagalarramba. David sings Inyjalarrku songs originally composed by his father and also his own, as well as knowing those originally composed by Winunguj\'s MB G(w)uwatpu(t) number 1, who was the leader of the Meinjinaj people (Kun-barlang tribe). He is married to Jenny Manmurulu who is one of the leaders of women\'s inyjalarrku dancing. He is encouraging his son Rupert, who sometimes plays the yumparrparr (giant)role in the nginji dance, to learn the songs and play didjeridu (arawirr). His other sons Reuben and Ranfred(?sp) also sing and dance.
		Rupert Manmurulu is the son of David and Jenny Manmurulu and was aged circa 25 and resident at Warruwi in 2006. He is married to a woman from Elliott and sometimes resides there. His skin is Na-wuyuk and his clan is Yalama, Ngutikin tribe. He sings Inyjalarrku and Nginji songs, and dances the yumparrparr (giant) dance, and also plays didjeridu for those song-sets. He also plays guitar and sings with a band from the Barkly area.
		Matthew O\'Keeffe is the pilot resident at Warruwi and a friend of Solomon Ganawa. From time to time he can be heard during this session talking to Solomon.
		Billy Nawoloinjba is a senior Manangkarri man and the current owner and singer of the Nganaru song-set that he inherited from his father
		Elanor Reeders is a linguist who was working on Yolngu languages at ARDS (Aboriginal Resource and Development Service) in Darwin in 2006. She visited Warruwi for a week in 2006 to work on Galpu manikay texts with Galpu people resident at Warruwi
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Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052199
		Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1052199%23
Publisher:		Linda Barwick
		University of Sydney
Subject:		Singing
		Ngarnaru NG Inyjalarrku IL
		Undetermined language
		spirit language
		Mawng
		English
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		Audio
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052199
DateStamp:		2017-04-15
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Citation:		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe; Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe; Manmurulu David, Winunguj (singer); Manmurulu Rupert; O'Keeffe Matthew; Nawoloinjba Billy (singer); Reeders Elanor. 2006-10-19. Linda Barwick.
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