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Title:20060607MD
Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:Garde Murray
Kalarriya Jimmy
Katherine Margaret, Belinj
Brennan Queenie
Contributor (recorder):Cutfield Sarah
Contributor (singer):Nadjamerrek Bardayal, Lofty
Kalarriya Jimmy
Coverage:Australia
Date:2006-06-07
Description:Fourteen morrdjdjanjno songs (some in Dalabon) performed by Bardayal Nadjamerrek and/or Jimmy Kalarriya, discussed with Murray Garde, Queenie Brennan and Margaret Katherine. Song subjects include rakul (partridge pigeon) and emu.
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.
Senior traditional owner of Kabulwarnamyo, awarded Order of Australia.
Murray Garde is a linguistic anthropologist and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has lived in Arnhem Land since 1989 and speaks most dialects of Bininj Gun-wok. He is Burlanj subsection.
Jimmy Kalarriya is Kodjok subsection, Wurrbbarn clan singer of Morrdjdjanjno songs and Djorli Laiwonga's Bongolinj-bongolinj series (which he learned in part at least from the Bamyili corroboree CD). Knowledgeable cultural expert and artist, ceremonial leader. Usually resident at Kamarrkawarn outstation of Kunbarlanja.
Sarah Cutfield (Bulanjdjan subsection) is a PhD student studying Dalabon, and a fellow grantee from the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project.
Margaret Katherine (Belinj subsection) is a language consultant who works with Sarah Cutfield.
Queenie Brennan (Bangurn / Banardidjan subsection, = Ngalkamarrang) is a Dalabon language consultant who works with Sarah Cutfield and Nick Evans. She regularly does court work as a Kriol interpreter. Register of Wards 1959 p. 125 at ALTC gives her tribal personal name as Nara Mul Mul.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052873
Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1052873%23
Publisher:Linda Barwick
University of Sydney
Subject:Singing
Morrdjdjanjno MD
Undetermined language
Dalabon
Kundedjnjenghmi
English
Subject (ISO639):und
Type:Audio

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Citation: Nadjamerrek Bardayal, Lofty (singer); Garde Murray; Kalarriya Jimmy; Cutfield Sarah (recorder); Katherine Margaret, Belinj; Brennan Queenie; Brennan Queenie; Kalarriya Jimmy (singer); Katherine Margaret, Belinj. 2006-06-07. Linda Barwick.
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