Songs from the stations : Wajarra as sung by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi /
"The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are perhaps best-known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights movement. Many discussions of station lif...
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University of Sydney, NSW :
Sydney University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of musical examples
- List of tables
- List of maps
- List of plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- A note on orthography
- Abbreviations, terms and conventions
- Introduction: Social, linguistic and geographic origins of the songs
- Performing wajarra
- The wajarra song sets
- Mintiwarra
- Kamul
- Freedom Day
- Laka
- Juntara
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The recordings
- Appendix: Song items.