Song spirals : sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines / Gay'Wu Group of Women ; Laklak Burarrwana, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd.
By: GayWu Group of Women [author]
Contributor(s): Burarrwana, Laklak [author.] | Ganambarr, Ritjilili [author.] | Ganambarr-Stubbs, Merrkiyawuy [author.] | Ganambarr, Banbapuy [author.] | Maymuru, Djawundil [author.] | Wright, Sarah [author.] | Suchet-Pearson, Sandie [author.] | Lloyd, Kate [author.] | GayWu Group of Women [author.]
Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019Copyright date: �2019Description: x, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations and portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: still image | still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760633219; 1760633216Other title: SongspiralsSubject(s): Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander | Indigenous Collection | Yolngu (Australian people) | Music | Aboriginal Australians | Women, Aboriginal Australian | Yolngu people (NT SD53) | Dhangu-Djangu Yolngu Matha language N230 | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory | Women, Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies | Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies | Songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory | Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Music | Songs, Aboriginal Australia -- Northern Territory | Aboriginal Australian women -- Northern Territory | Songs, Aboriginal Australian | Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies | Songs, Aboriginal Australian | Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Music | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Rites and ceremonies | Music -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land | Yolngu (Australian people) -- Songs and music | Aboriginal Australians -- Music | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory | Culture - Relationship to land | Gumatj language N141 | Indigenous knowledge | Social organisation - Elders | Music - Vocal - Clan songs | Stories and motifs - Ancestor spirits | Stories and motifs - Clouds | Stories and motifs - Stories and motifs - Climate and weather | Stories and motifs - Rain and storms | Stories and motifs - Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent | Yolngu people N230 | Arnhem Land (NT) | Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land | Northern Territory | Arnhem Land (N.T.) | Arnhem Land (N.T.) | Arnhem Bay map area (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-03) | Galupa (East Arnhem Land SD53-04) | AustralianGenre/Form: Indigenous collection | Indigenous collection | Songs and music. | Music. | Indigenous collection | Songs and music | Music. DDC classification: 305.89915 LOC classification: DU125.Y64 | G39 2019
Gay'wu Group of Women is the 'dilly bag women's group', a deep collaboration between five Yolngu women and three non-Aboriginal women over a decade - all co-athors of two other books. The group is made up of Laklak Burarrwanga, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wuymirri -- Wikun -- Guwak -- Wititj -- Go?-gurtha.
'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.' Aboriginal Australians are the longest surviving human culture on earth, and at the heart of Aboriginal culture is song. These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map, but they are much, much more than this. Songspirals are sung by Aboriginal people to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. Songspirals are radically different ways of understanding the relationship people can have with the landscape. For Yolngu people from North East Arnhem Land, women and men play different roles in bringing songlines to life, yet the vast majority of what has been published is about men's songlines. Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form.
Item in English and Yolngu.
Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Non-fiction, 2020 Short-listed.
Stella Prize Long-list 2020.
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