G Curran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 37240 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Curran |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Curran |
| FIRMA | CURRAN G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4290-9186 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ecomusicology, performance and environmental crises
This introductory article to the special issue overviews central themes of the field of Ecomusicology as drawn out from the discussions of Indigenous Australian and Aoetearoa New Zealand music and dance performance and/or sound and movement practices as considered with relation to their environments. We discuss how these practices are holistic multimodal art forms, emphasise the importance of deep listening and discuss the role of collective memo…
Ngapa manu Warlu–Rain and fire
Warlpiri women’s ceremonies are centred on lengthy songlines which contain verses holding intimate knowledge of the environment and interconnected cultural practices. These practices and the knowledge they maintain have sustained Aboriginal populations and the environment in the Tanami desert region of Australia over millennia. Indeed, for Aboriginal peoples across Central Australian communities, singing traditions are the primary means by which …
The Riches of Long-Term Community-Engaged Documentary Research
Review Essay of Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary: Warlpiri yimi-kirli manu jaru-kurlu. By Mary Laughren (Chief Compiler), Kenneth Hale, Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick Jangala, Robert Hoogenraad, David Nash, and Jane Simpson (Co-Compilers). Canberra, AU: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2022. p. xv + 1391. Price: AU$59.99. It is probably not a commonplace to sit down with a dictionary, open it to the first page, and remain captivated t…
We don't show our women's breasts for nothing
Warlpiri women from the Tanami Desert of Central Australia have across generations passed on their yawulyu ceremonies, which nurture kin, country and cosmological connections. Dussart has previously shown distinct shifts in purpose in the 1990s, as Warlpiri women first began to perform yawulyu for non-Indigenous audiences. In the past decade, a further shift has occurred, with yawulyu being held predominantly as part of community-development arts…
Yawulyu Mardukuja-patu-kurlangu
Warlpiri women, as with other groups across Indigenous Australia, sing to sustain and nurture their relationships with Country and jukurrpa (dreamings). For the custodians of these singing traditions, spiritual agency and power are consigned to songs and their singers, and performances are centred around nurturing relational links between people with Country and to other participants. Within contemporary contexts, in which Warlpiri singers are fi…
Justice for Walker
The police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker in Yuendumu in November 2019 instigated an immediate and determined response from Warlpiri families who were shocked and saddened by the death of a loved one in the prime of his life and enraged by this latest event in a long string of colonial injustices. This article collates perspectives as expressed in interviews and public statements from Warlpiri spokespeople who have been on the frontline of the figh…
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, the book lays out the features of Warlpiri song…
The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music
Musical performances are at the heart of many significant cultural events and often represent and affirm distinct cultural identities. Ethnographic research on music thus provides an important lens through which to understand distinct cultural worlds. In this introductory article we consider the value of research on music—for the communities for whom it is a highly valued form of cultural expression and for the produced understandings of peoples'…
Performing Purlapa
Performances of Aboriginal musical traditions have become widespread in various national and international spaces and are key ways in which Aboriginal people from distinct regions project their specific identities to a broader world. Warlpiri people, from the remote settlement of Yuendumu in the Tanami desert of Australia, have in the last few decades increasingly gained interest in performing their ceremonial songs and dances in intercultural sp…
That is Why I am Telling this Story
Insights into the knowledge, performance, and transmission of songs are pivotal in ensuring the survival of traditional Aboriginal songs. We present the first in-depth musical analysis of a Wapurtarli yawulyu song set sung by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu, Central Australia, recorded in December 2006 with a solo lead singer accompanied by a small group. Our musical analysis reveals that there are various interlocking parts of a song, and this can …
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
‘Waiting for Jardiwanpa’
Warlpiri fire ceremonies, including Jardiwanpa, have been documented in various ethnographies and films for over 100 years. Focused on the documented history of these rituals in Yuendumu, and through ethnographic observations from recent decades, I analyse the transforming meanings of fire ceremonies in contemporary Warlpiri lives. I demonstrate that there have been post‐settlement shifts in ritual purpose due to sedentarisation and the increased…
Representations of Indigenous Cultural Property in Collaborative Publishing Projects
This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press (Gallagher, C.N., et al., 2014. Jardiwanpa Yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs from Yuendumu. Batchelor: Batchelor Press and Warlpiri Women from Yuendumu. 2017. Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs fro…
On the Poetic Imagery of Smoke in Warlpiri Songs
Smoke, an ever-present source of comfort in day-to-day Warlpiri lives, is also a powerful ritual symbol and theme in the poetic language of Warlpiri songs. Rather than signalling these soothing qualities, in this more formalised sung context, smoke symbolically alludes to tension, uncertainty and unknown liminal states of transition. Here, I analyse examples from Warlpiri song texts to argue that, rather than being a semantic paradox, the cultura…
Warlpiri Ritual Contexts as Imaginative Spaces for Exploring Traditional Gender Roles
Desert Dreamers
Desert Dreamers makes accessible to an English readership Barbara Glowczewski’s longstanding ethnographic classic Les reveurs du desert (originally published in French by Plon in 1989), the first o
Steady Steady
This uplifting book tells of the life story and music of Henry ‘Seaman’ Dan, a Torres Strait Islander musician who began an award-winning recording career at the age of seventy. Over the following ...
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships:Examples from the Warlpiri Songlines Project Georgia Curran (bio) In November 2005 I arrived in Yuendumu, Central Australia, where I planned to live for the following fifteen months to undertake PhD field-work connected to an Australian Research Council–funded linkage project titled Warlpiri Songlines: Indigenous, Linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives. Within a few short months, I formed …
Linguistic Imagery in Warlpiri Songs
The language of Aboriginal songs is often described by both researchers and Aboriginal people as being unintelligible to those who do not have the ritual knowledge to understand it. The Minamina yawulyu performed by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu community, Central Australia, is one such song cycle that is described in this way. However, it does not display many instances of ritual or archaic words or phonological skewing that would clearly differe…
Representations of Indigenous Cultural Property in Collaborative Publishing Projects
This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press (Gallagher, C.N., et al., 2014. Jardiwanpa Yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs from Yuendumu. Batchelor: Batchelor Press and Warlpiri Women from Yuendumu. 2017. Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs fro…
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships:Examples from the Warlpiri Songlines Project Georgia Curran (bio) In November 2005 I arrived in Yuendumu, Central Australia, where I planned to live for the following fifteen months to undertake PhD field-work connected to an Australian Research Council–funded linkage project titled Warlpiri Songlines: Indigenous, Linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives. Within a few short months, I formed …
Linguistic Imagery in Warlpiri Songs
The language of Aboriginal songs is often described by both researchers and Aboriginal people as being unintelligible to those who do not have the ritual knowledge to understand it. The Minamina yawulyu performed by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu community, Central Australia, is one such song cycle that is described in this way. However, it does not display many instances of ritual or archaic words or phonological skewing that would clearly differe…
We don't show our women's breasts for nothing
Warlpiri women from the Tanami Desert of Central Australia have across generations passed on their yawulyu ceremonies, which nurture kin, country and cosmological connections. Dussart has previously shown distinct shifts in purpose in the 1990s, as Warlpiri women first began to perform yawulyu for non-Indigenous audiences. In the past decade, a further shift has occurred, with yawulyu being held predominantly as part of community-development arts…
Yawulyu Mardukuja-patu-kurlangu
Warlpiri women, as with other groups across Indigenous Australia, sing to sustain and nurture their relationships with Country and jukurrpa (dreamings). For the custodians of these singing traditions, spiritual agency and power are consigned to songs and their singers, and performances are centred around nurturing relational links between people with Country and to other participants. Within contemporary contexts, in which Warlpiri singers are fi…
That is Why I am Telling this Story
Insights into the knowledge, performance, and transmission of songs are pivotal in ensuring the survival of traditional Aboriginal songs. We present the first in-depth musical analysis of a Wapurtarli yawulyu song set sung by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu, Central Australia, recorded in December 2006 with a solo lead singer accompanied by a small group. Our musical analysis reveals that there are various interlocking parts of a song, and this can …
Linguistic Imagery in Warlpiri Songs
The language of Aboriginal songs is often described by both researchers and Aboriginal people as being unintelligible to those who do not have the ritual knowledge to understand it. The Minamina yawulyu performed by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu community, Central Australia, is one such song cycle that is described in this way. However, it does not display many instances of ritual or archaic words or phonological skewing that would clearly differe…
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships
The Dynamics of Collaborative Research Relationships:Examples from the Warlpiri Songlines Project Georgia Curran (bio) In November 2005 I arrived in Yuendumu, Central Australia, where I planned to live for the following fifteen months to undertake PhD field-work connected to an Australian Research Council–funded linkage project titled Warlpiri Songlines: Indigenous, Linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives. Within a few short months, I formed …
Steady Steady
This uplifting book tells of the life story and music of Henry ‘Seaman’ Dan, a Torres Strait Islander musician who began an award-winning recording career at the age of seventy. Over the following ...
Warlpiri Ritual Contexts as Imaginative Spaces for Exploring Traditional Gender Roles
Desert Dreamers
Desert Dreamers makes accessible to an English readership Barbara Glowczewski’s longstanding ethnographic classic Les reveurs du desert (originally published in French by Plon in 1989), the first o
On the Poetic Imagery of Smoke in Warlpiri Songs
Smoke, an ever-present source of comfort in day-to-day Warlpiri lives, is also a powerful ritual symbol and theme in the poetic language of Warlpiri songs. Rather than signalling these soothing qualities, in this more formalised sung context, smoke symbolically alludes to tension, uncertainty and unknown liminal states of transition. Here, I analyse examples from Warlpiri song texts to argue that, rather than being a semantic paradox, the cultura…
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
‘Waiting for Jardiwanpa’
Warlpiri fire ceremonies, including Jardiwanpa, have been documented in various ethnographies and films for over 100 years. Focused on the documented history of these rituals in Yuendumu, and through ethnographic observations from recent decades, I analyse the transforming meanings of fire ceremonies in contemporary Warlpiri lives. I demonstrate that there have been post‐settlement shifts in ritual purpose due to sedentarisation and the increased…
Representations of Indigenous Cultural Property in Collaborative Publishing Projects
This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press (Gallagher, C.N., et al., 2014. Jardiwanpa Yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs from Yuendumu. Batchelor: Batchelor Press and Warlpiri Women from Yuendumu. 2017. Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri Women’s Songs fro…
The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music
Musical performances are at the heart of many significant cultural events and often represent and affirm distinct cultural identities. Ethnographic research on music thus provides an important lens through which to understand distinct cultural worlds. In this introductory article we consider the value of research on music—for the communities for whom it is a highly valued form of cultural expression and for the produced understandings of peoples'…
Performing Purlapa
Performances of Aboriginal musical traditions have become widespread in various national and international spaces and are key ways in which Aboriginal people from distinct regions project their specific identities to a broader world. Warlpiri people, from the remote settlement of Yuendumu in the Tanami desert of Australia, have in the last few decades increasingly gained interest in performing their ceremonial songs and dances in intercultural sp…
That is Why I am Telling this Story
Insights into the knowledge, performance, and transmission of songs are pivotal in ensuring the survival of traditional Aboriginal songs. We present the first in-depth musical analysis of a Wapurtarli yawulyu song set sung by Warlpiri women from Yuendumu, Central Australia, recorded in December 2006 with a solo lead singer accompanied by a small group. Our musical analysis reveals that there are various interlocking parts of a song, and this can …
Justice for Walker
The police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker in Yuendumu in November 2019 instigated an immediate and determined response from Warlpiri families who were shocked and saddened by the death of a loved one in the prime of his life and enraged by this latest event in a long string of colonial injustices. This article collates perspectives as expressed in interviews and public statements from Warlpiri spokespeople who have been on the frontline of the figh…
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to their cultural heritage. Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, the book lays out the features of Warlpiri song…
We don't show our women's breasts for nothing
Warlpiri women from the Tanami Desert of Central Australia have across generations passed on their yawulyu ceremonies, which nurture kin, country and cosmological connections. Dussart has previously shown distinct shifts in purpose in the 1990s, as Warlpiri women first began to perform yawulyu for non-Indigenous audiences. In the past decade, a further shift has occurred, with yawulyu being held predominantly as part of community-development arts…
Yawulyu Mardukuja-patu-kurlangu
Warlpiri women, as with other groups across Indigenous Australia, sing to sustain and nurture their relationships with Country and jukurrpa (dreamings). For the custodians of these singing traditions, spiritual agency and power are consigned to songs and their singers, and performances are centred around nurturing relational links between people with Country and to other participants. Within contemporary contexts, in which Warlpiri singers are fi…
Ecomusicology, performance and environmental crises
This introductory article to the special issue overviews central themes of the field of Ecomusicology as drawn out from the discussions of Indigenous Australian and Aoetearoa New Zealand music and dance performance and/or sound and movement practices as considered with relation to their environments. We discuss how these practices are holistic multimodal art forms, emphasise the importance of deep listening and discuss the role of collective memo…
Ngapa manu Warlu–Rain and fire
Warlpiri women’s ceremonies are centred on lengthy songlines which contain verses holding intimate knowledge of the environment and interconnected cultural practices. These practices and the knowledge they maintain have sustained Aboriginal populations and the environment in the Tanami desert region of Australia over millennia. Indeed, for Aboriginal peoples across Central Australian communities, singing traditions are the primary means by which …
The Riches of Long-Term Community-Engaged Documentary Research
Review Essay of Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary: Warlpiri yimi-kirli manu jaru-kurlu. By Mary Laughren (Chief Compiler), Kenneth Hale, Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick Jangala, Robert Hoogenraad, David Nash, and Jane Simpson (Co-Compilers). Canberra, AU: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2022. p. xv + 1391. Price: AU$59.99. It is probably not a commonplace to sit down with a dictionary, open it to the first page, and remain captivated t…
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