Singing Bones

Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

Samuel Curkpatrick, Linda Barwick

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Sydney University Press
02 June 2020

Jazz; World music

Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts

Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and shaping relationships between people and the country.

Singing Bones foregrounds the voices of manikay singers from Ngukurr in southeastern Arnhem Land and charts their critically acclaimed collaboration with jazz musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra, Crossing Roper Bar. It offers an overview of Wägilak manikay narratives and style, including their social, ceremonial and linguistic aspects, and explores the Crossing Roper Bar project as an example of creative intercultural collaboration and a living continuation of the manikay tradition.

“Through song, the ancestral past animates the present, moving yolŋu (people) to dance. In song, community is established. By song, the past enfolds the present. Today, the unique voices of Wägilak resound over the ancestral ground and water, carried by the songs of old.”

Audio examples are available at: https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/singing-bones.html

By: Samuel Curkpatrick
Series edited by: Linda Barwick
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781743326770
ISBN 10: 1743326777
Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 02 June 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Collaboration Preface Glossary Introduction Impelled: songs from the ground Connected in song Abundant articulation: the living text of Manikay Narrative constellations Living bones: Those clapping sticks have a song Grooving together: the Crossing Roper Bar collaboration Interwoven voices: a brilliant aesthetic Playing together: collaboration and creativity Epilogue: new friendships Bibliography Discography Appendix 1: song texts Appendix 2: Young Wagilak group tour and performance history Index

Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher and musician with a particular interest in intercultural collaboration and Indigenous Australian music. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, and teaches at Stirling Theological College, University of Divinity.

Nominated for Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021 (United States)
Nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021 (Australia)
Winner of Ruth Stone Prize 2021 (Society of Musicology) 2021
Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction 2021