OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052862

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Title:		20060613MP
		Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:		O'Keeffe Matthew
		George
		Namarruda Johnny, Blackbook
Contributor (interviewer):		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Contributor (recorder):		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Contributor (singer):		Ganawa Solomon
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2006-06-13
Description:		Recording of Mirrijpu, Manangkardi songs given to Solomon Ganawa by his father. Recorded by Isabel Bickerdike. Also present were some men including Matthew O'Keeffe, George (Sandra Makurlngu's husband) and others unknown to the recordist.
		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).
		Solomon Ganawa (deceased november 2006) was next-door neighbour to Isabel Bickerdike when she lived at Warruwi in 2006. He received the Mirrijpu songset from his father, who dreamt the songs. His traditional language was Manangkardi, but he used Mawng as his first language. After his death the songs were taken up by his brother Solomon Nangamu, who was recorded singing them at a funeral in Warruwi in April 2007.
		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.
		married to Sandra Makuringu
		Johnny Namarruda (nicknamed /'Blackbook/') was the preferred didjeridu player for Solomon Ganawa's Mirrijpu songs. He was resident at Warruwi. He died in late 2006.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052862
		Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1052862%23
Publisher:		Linda Barwick
		University of Sydney
Subject:		Singing
		Mirrijpu MP
		Undetermined language
		Manangkardi
		English
		Mawng
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052862
DateStamp:		2017-04-15
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Citation:		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe (recorder); Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe (interviewer); Ganawa Solomon (singer); O'Keeffe Matthew; George; Namarruda Johnny, Blackbook. 2006-06-13. Linda Barwick.
Terms:		iso639_und
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