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Singing Bones

Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

Samuel Curkpatrick Linda Barwick

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English
Sydney University Press
02 June 2020
Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land, passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.

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 Wgilak 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 continuation of the manikay tradition.
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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 of Australia
Pages:   220
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

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