Reflections and Voices: Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupingu

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Professor Aaron Corn Linda Barwick

Reflections and Voices

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Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupingu

Professor Aaron Corn, Linda Barwick

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Sydney University Press
30 July 2009

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: Indigenous Music of Australia

Reflections and Voices takes readers on a captivating journey with Yothu Yindu and their lead singer and songwriter, Mandawuy Yunupingu. Locating the band within a continuum of traditional practice that records the beauty of Arnhem Land as experienced by Mandawuy's ancestors, and has guided local engagements with visitors from across the Arafura Sea for countless centuries. It also reveals how Mandawuy's work as an educator and musician championed the continuing importance of traditional Indigenous thought and practice to contemporary life in Australia.

By: Professor Aaron Corn
Series edited by: Linda Barwick
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9781920899349
ISBN 10: 1920899340
Series: Indigenous Music of Australia
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 30 July 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Allan Marett Preface Mandawuy Yunupinu and Galarrwuy Yunupinu Acknowledgements A note on orthography Introduction Reflections 1. A band with a vision 2. Who are the Yolnu? 3. Child and mother 4. Voices of eternity 5. Visitors from abroad 6. Resistance on the frontier 7. The struggle for justice 8. Hope for the future A legacy of hope Voices 1. 'Djapana: sunset dreaming' 2. 'Mainstream' 3. 'Treaty' 4. 'Tribal voice' 5. 'Timeless land' 6. 'World turning' 7. 'Dots on the shells' 8. 'Ghost spirits' Conclusions Dancing trees: an epilogue Marcia Langton Glossary Discography Chronology References About the authors

Aaron Corn is the director of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) and the National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS) at the University of Adelaide.