OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052841

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Title:		20060706NJ
		Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor:		O'Keeffe Matthew
		Namarruda Johnny, Blackbook
		Naluraidj Albert
Contributor (recorder):		Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe
Contributor (singer):		Marrwal James
		Narul David
		Nami Terry
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2007-07-06
Description:		Recording of Nginji songs which were passed on to James Marrwal and David Narul (brothers) from their father. They are songs which are in unknown or 'spirit' language and are about the Yumparrparr, mythical giants. There is associated Nginji dancing (of which there is an older recording made by people at CDU) and there are two male dancers decorated as the Yumparrparr. See also discussion by James Marrwal in 20060724IB01. Also present at the recording were a few men (unknown to the recordist) and Matthew O'Keeffe.
		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.
		James Marrwal is aged circa 60 and living in Warruwi in 2006/7. He is one of the main singers of the Nginji songs.
		Singer of Nginji songs, brother of James Marrwal. Recorded by Isabel Bickerdike at Warruwi in 2006.
		Matthew O\'Keeffe is the pilot resident at Warruwi and a friend of Solomon Ganawa. From time to time he can be heard during this session talking to Solomon.
		Isabel Bickerdike is a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Linda Barwick and Nick Evans. She was aged 25 in 2006 and was resident at Warruwi from May-November 2006. She is Ngal-bangardi skin, Wurrik clan (Kun-winjku tribe?, given by Mary Gurden-gurden, this is her mother\'s clan).
		Johnny Namarruda (nicknamed /'Blackbook/') was the preferred didjeridu player for Solomon Ganawa's Mirrijpu songs. He was resident at Warruwi. He died in late 2006.
		Albert Naluraidj (spelling as on LB consent form; Isabel Bickerdike has his surname as \'Nadarraj\') was resident at Warruwi and aged about 60 in 2006. He is the main didjeridu (arawirr) player and occasional singer for the inyjalarrku song-set, and also plays didjeridu for the nginji and ngili song-sets. His skin is Na-wangari and he is Manjdjurlngunj clan and Meyinjdjinadj tribe (Kun-barlang speakers). According to David Manmurulu 3/4/2007 Manjdjurlngunj clan can speak Kun-winjku, Mawng or Kun-barlang. His father was Gwatput number 1, the original composer of the inyjalarrku song-set.
		Recorded at Warruwi in 2006 singing Nginji songs.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052841
		Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1052841%23
Publisher:		Linda Barwick
		University of Sydney
Subject:		Singing
		Nginji-Ngili NJ
		Undetermined language
		Mawng
		English
		spirit language
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		Audio
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1052841
DateStamp:		2017-04-15
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Citation:		Marrwal James (singer); Narul David (singer); O'Keeffe Matthew; Bickerdike Isabel, O'Keeffe (recorder); Namarruda Johnny, Blackbook; Naluraidj Albert; Nami Terry (singer). 2007-07-06. Linda Barwick.
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