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Title: | Yanajanak Music Performance ('Stone Country Songs') 01 | |
dvR_040203 | ||
Yiwarrunj, yinyman, radbiyi lda mali: Iwaidja and Other Endangered Languages of the Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) in their Cultural Context | ||
Contributor: | Bruce | |
Contributor (consultant): | Reuben | |
Jamsey | ||
Archie | ||
David | ||
Reggie | ||
Charlie | ||
Coverage: | Australia | |
Date: | 2004-02-03 | |
Description: | Musicians gather on the beach at Minjilang to perform Yanajanak ("Stone Country Songs"). The music has already started, when boys and girls arrive at the beach, joining the performance as dancers. Group by group they were collected in the community and driven down to the event. During perfomance breaks the musicians converse in Iwaidja, and the boys get out of control. Charlie Mangulda: Song owner, lead singer, clap stick lead Reuben Arramunika: Didjeridoo Archie Brown: Clap sticks Jamesie Cooper: Hand clapping David Minyimak: Backup musician (clap sticks) Reggie Cooper: Backup musician (clap sticks) | |
This project documents, in as full a cultural context as is possible, the Iwaidja language of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (Iwaidjan language family, non-Pama-Nyungan), still spoken by around 200 people but under increasing threat from English, as well as recording material from other languages of the region (Marrgu, Ilgar/ Garig, Amurdak and Manangkari) which are all reduced to one or two speakers each. In addition to linguists, the research team will include specialists in ethnomusicology, material culture / archaeology, and social anthropology, and will result in a comprehensive, searchable and browsable sound and video documentation, with Iwaidja transcriptions and subtitles alongside English translations, an Iwaidja dictionary of around 5,000 words, detailed phonetic analysis, and briefer materials on other languages of the area. | ||
Musicians gather on the beach at Minjilang to perform Yanajanak ("Stone Country Songs"). The music has already started, when boys and girls arrive at the beach, joining the performance as dancers. Group by group they were collected in the community and driven down to the event. During perfomance breaks the musicians converse in Iwaidja, and the boys get out of control. Charlie Mangulda: Song owner, lead singer, clap stick lead Reuben Arramunika: Didjeridoo Archie Brown: Clap sticks Jamesie Cooper: Hand clapping David Minyimak: Backup musician (clap sticks) Reggie Cooper: Backup musician (clap sticks) | ||
Reuben Arramunika was born in 1953 at Wadi, near Araru and Cape Don. He lived at Cape Don as a child, later moving to Minjilang where he attended the mission school along with Ronnie Waraludj. He remains based at Minjilang. | ||
Bio | ||
Archie Brown was born at Minarri, one of Reuben Cooper’s timber mills at the eastern end of the Cobourg Peninsula in 1941. As a young man he spent time working in Darwin, before moving to Croker, where he worked at the mission as a butcher and mechanic. He remains based at Minjilang today. | ||
David Minyimak was born at Araru near Cape Don in the 1930s. After spending time working as a cook at Murganella (Waak), where he was given the nickname ‘Cookie’, he moved to Minjilang on Croker Island. After the success of the Cobourg Land Claim in 1981, Minyimak and his brother and sister established an outstationat Gamurragi. He now divides his time between Minjilang and the mainland. | ||
Reggie Cooper was born in the 1930s at Ingbarlmun at the eastern end of the Cobourg Peninsula, where his father worked cutting cypress pine at one of Reuben Cooper’s timber mills. He moved to Cape Don as a young man. After living for a time at Bagot Reserve in Darwin, he moved, with his wife and children, to Minjilang on Croker Island, where his uncles were clan owners. He remains based at Minjilang today. | ||
Format: | audio/x-wav | |
video/x-mpeg2 | ||
text/x-eaf+xml | ||
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0007-F9CF-4 | |
IW | ||
Publisher: | Nicholas Evans | |
University of Melbourne | ||
Subject: | Performance | |
Music | ||
Music Performance, Stone Country Songs, Yanajanak | ||
English language | ||
Iwaidja language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | eng | |
ibd | ||
Type: | audio | |
video | ||
OLAC Info |
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Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0007-F9CF-4 | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
Citation: | Reuben (consultant); Jamsey (consultant); Archie (consultant); Bruce; David (consultant); Reggie (consultant); Charlie (consultant). 2004-02-03. Nicholas Evans. | |
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Country: | AustraliaUnited Kingdom | |
Area: | EuropePacific |