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20060824MPXX

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-1014-A

Title: MP Mirrijpu 'Seagull' songs - discussion

Description: Video of Solomon Ganawa discussing his Mirrijpu 'seagull' songs (in Manangkarri song language) with his wife Naomi Ilakkilak and Isabel Bickerdike. Solomon also sings some of the Mirrijpu songs along with previous recordings. (Notes: 20060824IBv01.wav is the extracted audio from 20060824IBv01.mpg. File is 16bit 48kHz stereo. Recording equipment: Sony video camera)

Date created: 2006-08-24

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Region: Western Arnhem Land

Address: Warruwi

Project

ID: MDP0139

Name: 0430-MDP0139

Description: 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.