OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1056303

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Title:		20070403ILXX
		Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:		Barwick Linda
Contributor (interviewer):		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Contributor (recorder):		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Contributor (singer):		Manmurulu David, Winunguj
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2007-04-03
Description:		Discussion of the Inyjalarrku song-set, mainly in English but with some comments in Mawng, recorded in Darwin by Isabel Bickerdike with David Manmurulu, a Mawng songman usually resident in Warruwi. Linda Barwick arrives partway through the session. Poor sound quality due to noisy environment.
		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.
		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.
		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).
		Linda Barwick is the principal investigator on the Western Arnhem Land Song Project. She is a musicologist employed by the University of Sydney and was aged 51 in 2006. She is Ngal-wagadj skin, Djalama clan (bestowed by Mary Gurden-gurden 2006) (same clan as her sister Mary Murndanjmarri).
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1056303
		Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1056303%23
Publisher:		Linda Barwick
		University of Sydney
Subject:		Singing
		Inyjalarrku IL
		Undetermined language
		English
		Mawng
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:MPI1056303
DateStamp:		2017-04-15
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Citation:		Manmurulu David, Winunguj (singer); Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe (recorder); Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe (interviewer); Barwick Linda. 2007-04-03. Linda Barwick.
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