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Author Marett, Allan, author

Title For the sake of a song : Wangga songmen and their repertories / Allan Marett, Linda Barwick, Lysbeth Ford
Published Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series The Indigenous music of Australia ; volume 2
Contents A social history of Wangga -- The music and dance conventions of Wangga -- The language of Wangga -- Barrtjap's repertory -- Muluk's repertory -- Mandji's repertory -- Lambudju's repertory -- The Walakandha Wangga repertory -- The Ma-Yawa Wangga repertory
Summary Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the songs for their own communities and for the general public over the past 50 years. The book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa wangga groups, the repertories being named after the ancestral song-giving ghosts of the Marri Tjavin and Marri Ammu people respectively
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wangga -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Music
Music - Musicology - Ethnomusicology
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
Aboriginal Australians
Wangga
Northern Territory
Genre/Form Music
Form Electronic book
Author Barwick, Linda, author
Ford, Lysbeth Julie, author
ISBN 9781743326213
1743326211
9781743327654
174332765X