‘We have survived’
Popular music as a representation of Australian Aboriginal cultural loss and reclamation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20043439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Dunbar-Hall, Peter Dunbar‐hall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 119-131 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Resisting Muse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351218061-9 |
| OpenAlex | W2904027338 |
| ISBN | 9781351218061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter focuses on the recordings of one Aboriginal rock group – Wirrinyga Band, from Milingimbi in the extreme north of the Australian continent – as a means of opening windows into the world of Aboriginal popular music and its role as commentator on the survival, maintenance and perpetuation of Aboriginal cultures. The Aboriginal members of Wirrinyga Band refer to themselves as Yolngu, speakers of languages of the Yolngu language block that stretches across a wide region of the north-eastern section of Arnhem Land. This group has released two albums to date: Dreamtime Shadow and Dreamtime Wisdom Modern Time Vision. It is significant in Aboriginal terms that both albums draw on the image of the Dreamtime for their titles, as the Dreamtime lies at the basis of Aboriginal cosmology. Making statements of and about cultural identity and emphasizing that different Aboriginal cultures have their own languages are also important considerations
Archaeology · Land reclamation · Political science · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |