In this episode we interview ethnochoreologist Megan Morais and Warlpiri women and translators Janet Nakamarra Long and Helen Napurrurla Morton about their research in the early 1980s on yawulyu, women’s ceremony in Willowra. This research has led to a recent book publication that they have co-authored where the songs and artistic designs are described and illustrated as a way to return them to community. The episode starts with an outline of yawulyu interspersed with lengthy audio excerpts to give you a good feel for how it sounds and unfolds in real time. This is followed by interviews with Janet, Helen and then Megan where they talk about their experience of Willowra, Megan’s fieldwork, the recent repatriation and the book and the importance of yawulyu to Warlpiri identity and connection to Country.

Most of the verses featured in this episode are referred to in the book publication mentioned above. The title of the book is Yawulyu: Art and Song in Warlpiri Women’s Ceremony and it is co-authored by Megan, Janet, Helen, other Walrpiri women and ethnomusicologist Myfany Turpin. The full list of authors is given below in the list of references. 

The book includes QR codes with links to audio examples deposited on PARADISEC. Note that the audio examples on PARADISEC comprise multiple recordings deposited at AIATSIS. We have included relevant info to both these archives to enhance findability.

Book details: 

Morais, M. J. (Megan Jones); Martin, Lucy Nampijinpa; Martin, Peggy Nampijinpa; Martin, Marilyn Nampijinpa; Martin, Leah Nampijinpa; Morton, Helen Napurrurla; Long, Janet Nakamarra; Kitson, Maisie Napaljarri; O'Keefe, Maureen Jipyiliya Nampijinpa; Long, Clarrie Kemarr; Presley, Jeannie Nampijinpa; Brown, Marjorie Nampijinpa; Williams, Selina, Napanangka; Turpin, Myfany, 2025. Yawulyu : Art and Song in Warlpiri Women's Ceremony, Aboriginal Studies Press.

All other references listed further down.

Image: Lady Nampijinpa and Kuliliya Napaljarri dancing taken by Megan Morais in 1981-2.

Audio excerpts in order of appearance 

(timecode in podcast, song (i.e. verse) title, song number, page number from book, full song text and translations)

01:26-03:00 

Wirliya wirliyanpa kujurnu (Song 1, p. 70 Song 81, p. 161) 

Words (as spoken): Wirliya wirliyanpa kujurnu Wirliyajarrayirla

Words (as sung): Wirliya wirliyanpa kujurna wirliya jarrayirla

Translation: You cast aside the foot at Wirliyajarrayirla (Willowra)

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Ngarnalkurru Jukurrpa song-set recording, DJ_M01-019524 sung by Ruth Nungarrayi, Molly Nungarrayi, Nellie Nungarrayi, Lady Nampijinpa, Molly Nampijinpa, Carol Nangala, Mary Nangala, Rosie Napangardi, Agnes Napanangka, Betty Napanangka, Lady Napaljarri, Maudie Napaljarri and Ivy Napaljarri.

15:26-19:35

Kanali-kanali (Song 6, p. 75)

Words (as spoken): kanali-kanali | larra-jarajara 

Words (as sung): kanali-kanalay | larra-jarajara

Translation: The ceremonial poles slide along the ground

Lima-lima kartarrara (Song 49, p 123)

Words (as spoken): lima-lima kartarrara | kurralyiyalyiya kartarrirra

Words (as sung): Lima-lima kartarrirra | kurralyiyalyiya kartarrirray

Translation unknown

Karnta-karnta-wurru pardinya (Song 45, p. 119)

Words (as spoken): karntakarnta-wurru yarlparirri pardinya | kurralyiyalyiya yarlparirri-pardinya 

Words (as sung): karntakarnta-wirri yarlparirri pardinya | kurralyiyalyiya yarlparirri-pardinya 

Tr. Lots of ancestral women are dancing

29:28-33:04

Karnta-karnta-wurru (cont’d from previous excerpt)

36:14-42:03

Milpaku jintaku jarra-pardinya  (Song 53, p. 127)

Laji marta marta | milpaku jintaku | jarra pardinya | jarra pardinya

Laji marta martaylay | mipangkay-jintangkay | jarraw pardinyay | jarraw pardinyay | 

Tr. The dried dogwood seeds, one was flaming red

Napana-napanarlu (Song 54, p. 127)

Words (as spoken): Napana | Napanarlu || malpa kuntarlu | pilyaly-kujurnu ||

Words (as sung) Napana | Napana | rlay || Milpakurn-ta-rlay | pilyalyan | kijani | nya ||

Tr. The Napanangka ancestral women Shamefully scattered all the dogwood seeds
  
  

44:11-50:21

            Napana-napanarlu (cont’d from previous excerpt)

            Manpijipijirli Yinkartapirrinyi (song 55, p. 128)

Words (as spoken):       yunkartapirriniya | yartu-wangkanya | yartu-wangkanya | 

Manpijipijirli | | yartu-wangkanya | yartu-wangkanya | 

Words (as sung):           yankarta pirrinyi | yati-wangkirrinya | yati-wangkirrinya |

                                    Manpijapijarli | | yati-wangkirrinya | yati-wangkirrinya |

Translation unknown (place names)

Third song unknown

01:07:44-01:08:46

Parrarla

Ngurlulu parrarlan tiya tiya 

From book Jardiwanpa yawulyu : Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu (full details in reference list)

01:17:42-01:20:50

            Wirliya wirliyanpa kujurnu (details above in first audio excerpt)

01:09:44-01:12:44

Ngapa Jukurrpa song-set recording DJ_M01-019519 by Millie Nangala, Cathy Nangala Simpson, Molly Nungarrayi, Maudie Nungarrayi and Ruth Nungarrayi on the 13th of May 1982,  

Kajara-kajara (84, p. 167)

Words (as spoken): kajara kajara yarrapu-wantinya | milpirri yarrapu-wantinya ||

Words (as sung): kajara kajara yarrapantinya | milpirri yarrapantinya ||

Tr. Receding wispy clouds fade away in the distance, rain clouds fade away in the distance

Jamparti marr-mani (Song 85, p. 167)

Words (as spoken): jampartiyi maarr-mani maarr-mani

Words (as sung): jamparti marrmani marrmani ||

Tr. The lightning is flashing

References

Curran, G., 2020. Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri ceremonial life in Central Australia. Berghahn Books.

Curran, G., Martin, B.N. and Barwick, L., 2024. Minamina yawulyu: Musical change from the 1970s through to the 2010s. Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs, edited by Curran, G. L. Barwick, V.N. Martin, S.J.Fisher and N.Peterson, pp.107–144. Sydney University Press & PAW Media & Communications, Sydney & Yuendumu.

Disbray, S., 2017. ‘Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children’. The Conversation, June 16, 2017, <<https://theconversation.com/why-more-schools-need-to-teach-bilingual-education-to-indigenous-children-79435>> accessed 12 May 2026.

Gallagher, Coral Napangardi & Brown, Peggy Nampijinpa & Curran, Georgia & Martin, Barbara Napanangka. 2014. Jardiwanpa yawulyu : Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu. Batchelor Press, Batchelor, NT.

Laughren, Mary Napaljarri, Jeannie Nungarrayi Egan, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick Jangala, Robert Hoogenraad, David Nash and Jane Simpson. 2022. Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary: Warlpiri yimi-kirli manu jaru-kurlu.  Aboriginal Studies Press Canberra.

Laughren, M. (1982). Warlpiri kinship structure. Oceania Linguistic Monographs, 24, 72-85.

Morais, M.J., 2021. Documenting the Dreaming: Designs and Songs of the Present, in the Past, for the Future. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 22(2-3), pp.119-139.

Turpin, Myfany & Laughren, Mary. (2013) Edge Effects in Warlpiri Yawulyu Songs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification. Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 4, 399–425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2013.857569

Turpin, M. (2022). End Rhyme in Aboriginal Sung Poetry. Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song, 25, 213.

Credits 

Music!Dance!Culture! is produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan, this episode co-produced with Janet Nakamarra Long, Helen Napurrurla Morton and Megan Morais, theme music by Mahesh remixed by Arian Pearson, transitions by Mahesh and Alexis Weaver. Special thanks to Janet Nakamarra Long, Helen Napurrurla Morton, Megan Morais, Myfany Turpin, Mary Laughren, Sudiipta Dowsett, Felicity Meakins, Evelyn Quispe, Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, PARADISEC, AIATSIS, Australian Anthropological Society, The University of Queensland, our reviewers, beta listeners and supporters. 

Glossary

Jukurrpa - a timeless creational moment (Dreaming)

kirda - owner for ceremonies and Country inherited from one’s father

kurdungurlu - manager for ceremonies and Country inherited from one’s mother

Kurdiji - a large-scale community ceremony through which teenage boys become men 

Kankarlu - a secondary stage of advanced initiatory education no longer held in Warlpiri communities, often translated as ‘high school’ (literally means ‘high’)

ngulajuku - that’s all (finished)

ngurlu - edible seeds

ngurrju - good

yapa - Aboriginal person

yurlpu (yurlpa) - red ochre

yuwayi -yes

Senior Mawng songmen, musicians and brothers, Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu from Warruwi (Goulburn Island) and non-Indigenous scholar Dr. Reuben Brown talk to us about manyardi (a song ceremony from western Arnhem Land), in particular, the Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ songset and dance ceremony. We discuss their research collabs, Reuben’s Mamurrng* “gift” ceremony, Rupert and Renfred’s father’s father, the late George Winunguj MBE, new adaptations, hopes for the future, Reuben’s new book “The Gift of Song” and more!

Disclaimers

The knowledge in this episode is the Indigenous cultural intellectual property (ICIP) of Inyjalarrku manyardi ceremony leaders and custodians. It is used in this podcast with their consent. Further use without proper attribution of the ICIP owners may breach customary laws as well as copyright and moral rights under the Copyright Act 1968 (Australian Govt) 

Listeners are advised that we mention and feature the voices of people who have died. 

Featured music (with podcast timecodes)

1. Nulatparlangkat (‘fast one’) - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song - Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu with Alfred Gawaraidji, recorded by Reuben Brown  (RB2-20230914-13-IL_nulatparlangkat_old_new_edit). (3:04-4:39)
2. Inyjalarrku by George Winunguj MBE, Kate Conti (collector), Victor Carell (speaker), Dick Roughsey (performer), 1962. Ballet of the South Pacific 1970 . JPEG/TIFF/MPEG/VND.WAV. VCBD-003 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/zcaj-8s50 (15:56-17:50)
3. Remix - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song - Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Warruwi community. Recorded by Reuben Brown (RB2-20230914-21-IL_remix). (23:24-24:53)
4. Jumpy One - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song- Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Reuben Brown recorded for Music!Dance!Culture! (36:22-37:27)
5. Iwarruj  (excerpt) - by Warruwi community produced by Wayne Glenn from SoundED with support from West Arnhem Regional Council (42:53-43:43)
6. Indjalarrgu (excerpt), sung by Nambadambal and Nadjalbur with Wandiwandi (didjeridu), Songs from the Northern Territory No.1: Recorded by Alice Moyle in 1962, AIATSIS 1991. (53:08-54:24)
7. Inyjalarrku-Shimauta collaboration (excerpt) - performance by Rupert and Renfred with Marin Naruse, singer and sanshin player from Amami Islands in Japan recorded by Reuben Brown (Inyjalarrku-Shimauta collaboration_01_Lisbon). (57:45-58:50)

Reuben Brown recordings to be archived in PARADISEC RB2 collection

Research by Reuben Brown on manyardi*

Brown, R., O'Keeffe, I., Manmurulu, R., Manmurulu, R. and Manmurulu, J., 2024. ‘Remix!' Continuity through innovation in the manyardi song tradition of western Arnhem Land. In Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change, G. Curran and M. White-Radhakrishnan (eds.). Routledge. ISBN: 9781032693965 

Brown, R., 2024. The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003216339 

Credits

Music!Dance!Culture! is produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan, this episode co-produced with Reuben Brown, Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu, theme music by Mahesh remixed by Arian Pearson, transitions by Mahesh and Alexis Weaver. Special thanks to the Manmurulu family and Warruwi community, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, PARADISEC, Wayne Glenn from Sounded, Jodie Kell, Amanda Harris, Isabel O’Keefe, Kate Conti, AIATSIS, our reviewers, beta listeners and supporters. 

*Visit music-dance-culture.com for more detailed shownotes including a glossary and more research

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 6: "The sounds of shackles breaking" with Soundz of the South

Soundz of the South (SoS) is a Hip Hop group/movement from the outskirts of Cape Town building an international working-class counter-culture. In this episode co-produced with guests researcher Sudiipta & interviewees Anela, Tsidi Bang Bang, Khanya Athule from SoS, we discuss activism and art, SoS's creative response to xenophobic violence in South Africa and challenging gender injustice. Languages: English, isiXhosa. See this on YouTube: (https://youtu.be/qar0CYlNZz0).

Images featured by Sudiipta Dowsett or with permission from Soundz of the South 

Music featured

Thina by Soundz of the South featuring Java, Anela, Karl Myz, Millz and Tsidi - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/thina (excerpt 1:38-3:00)

Train Cypher against Xenophobia by Soundz of the South(SOS), Poetics and Phillippi High Speaks (2015) shot by C'de Anele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpTLhbGtho (excerpt 9:05-10:48 featuring Lukhanyo Zondani aka Freeze Jargon rapping and Millz The First leading a struggle song)

Dragons Head by Soundz of the South featuring rapper Skills, Anela Jahmena and Sudiipta, beats by Kunta Official Beats from album K'ltsha Kulture album produced as part of Sudiipta's PhD research - https://open.spotify.com/track/0cu3p0d8WvTiwakcpMMVeL?si=075245998fe34def (18:21-22:34) (features excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech)

Anisaboni by Soundz of the South from album Freedom Warriors Vol. 4. - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/anisaboni (26:41-31:24)

Zivume by Soundz of the South from album Words of Rebel Sistah - (explained 37:01-38:35 and excerpt sung live 41:43-41:55) - https://soundcloud.com/s_os/zivume-anela-sos?in=s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Words of Rebel Sistah compilation - https://soundcloud.com/s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah (42:45-44:55)

Links:

Website - https://www.soundzofthesouth.org/

Bandcamp - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/

Crossroads: I live where I like by Koni Benson (2014) (40:15-42:44) 

Research by Dr. Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett

https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-sudiipta-shamalii-dowsett/publications

Rebel Sistah Cypher: Hip-hop as embodied practice for social change -https://freilich.anu.edu.au/research/projects/rebel-sistah-cypher-hip-hop-embodied-practice-social-change-0

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Music!Dance!Culture! is produced by Georgia Curran & Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. This ep guest co-produced with Sudiipta Dowsett & Soundz of the South members Anela Jahmena, Tsidi Bang Bang & Khanya Baba. Theme music by Mahesh, remixed & produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh featuring transitions by Alexis Weaver. Thanks to all artists featured in this episode. Thanks to Sydney Conservatorium of Music, SCM Work in Progress Group, University of New South Wales, PARADISEC, Australian Anthropological Society, the Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry (Australian National University) and our supporters. www.music-dance-culture.com

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 3. Born for this gift with amaXhosa rapper MC Kideo

In this episode co-produced with guests researcher Sudiipta Dowsett and interviewee amaXhosa rapper MC Kideo (aka Makhi Mketho), we hear about Kideo’s journey becoming a rapper growing up in Khayelitsha a township on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa’s western cape. Kideo talks about the influence of traditional forms such as Imbongi poetry and Kwaito music on his own development as a rapper, the way he began by performing the verses of others and gradually introduced his own, the role of other hiphop artists and spaces to exhibit his work and his heartfelt reflections on the tensions between amaXhosa traditional culture and the influence of western culture and Christianity. Features recorded music tracks and a sample of live performance. Contains some strong language and brief reference to violence.

Featured photo of MC Kideo taken by Laduduma

Music featured by MC Kideo and other artists

Kutyiwa by MC Kideo (Backyard Crew) releaesed 2016  - https://soundcloud.com/kideolakakintlebackyard/kideo-kutyiwa (excerpt: 1:55-2:40)

Emthandazwen by Spijojo Heavyweight produced by Joejo. (6:08-7:13)

Poetry performance by HRH Zolani Mkiva for 2010 Fifa Men’s World Cup -  FNB Praise Singer (8:07-8:52)

I'm Not In a Hurry by Kideo featuring Soska & Agmaad released 2013. (12:24-13:22)

Ndizobhubha by MC Kideo released 2017 (16:36-20:11)

Kutyiwa by MC Kideo (see details above) (full track 27:48-30:51)

Live performance of verse from track One-Two (31:14-31:49)

Unyana Wolahleko by MC Kideo ft Sudiipta Dowsett and Shadow (aka Left Eye) due for release by Monotoca Music in 2023 (33:55-39:31)

Sound effect samples used

Radio tuning noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GIrIs4Q_y4&t=2s

Fire sound effect in high quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz9ftphTWTM&t=11s

Research by Dr. Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett

Dowsett S, 2020, 'The Routes of Hip-Hop in Cape Town: Collective Performance Practices and the Embodied Sociality of the Ghetto', in Peddie I (ed.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 485 - 506

Dowsett S, 2019, 'Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa', in Walters T; Jepson AS (ed.), Marginalisation and Events, Routledge

Dowsett, Sudiipta. Revolutionary but gangsta: hip-hop in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Diss. UNSW Sydney, 2017.

Glossary

amaXhosa - Xhosa people
isiXhosa - Xhosa language
spaza - a genre of rap music from the townships near Cape Town
kwaito - a form of South African popular dance music 
Imbongi - South African praise poet

Music Dance Culture is produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. This episode is guest co-produced with Sudiipta Dowsett and MC Kideo, also known as Makhi Mketho, a big thanks to both of them. Theme music by Mahesh, remixed and produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh featuring transitions by Alexis Weaver. Thank you to all the artists featured in this episode: MC Kideo, Backyard Crew, Soska, Agmaad, Shadow also known as Left Eye, Heavyweight Spijojo and The Honorable Zolani Mkiva - links in our shownotes. Thanks also for support from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of New South Wales, Abongile Biggz Aprils and PARADISEC and to our beta listeners James Humberstone and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan.

In this episode we interview researcher and performer Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, our collaborator on the previous episode and the two episodes to come about her research on representing place through hip-hop in First Nations cultures in Central Australia and South Africa as well as her own experience of hip-hop.

Music Dance Culture is produced by Georgia Curran (she/her) and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (they/them). Theme music by Mahesh, remixed and produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with inputs from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society, PARADISEC, Sudiipta Dowsett and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan,

This episode was recorded and produced on the unceded lands of Aboriginal people of the Sydney region, the Southern Highlands and Northern New South Wales. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all elders past, present and emerging.

We would also like to respectfully acknowledge the roots of hip-hop in African American and Afro-Caribbean cultures especially acknowledging the tragic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and celebrate the hopes of emancipation and step towards justice taken on this day, the 19th of June 1865 (Juneteenth).

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Photo: Sudiipta Dowsett with Metabolism discussing the track 'Got Time' at Phumzile Productions studio in Kuyasa, Western Cape, South Africa. Taken by MC Kideo.

Shownotes (chronological)

3:18-3:25 - Mahesh on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show: Dances across the Indian Ocean <>

Sudiipta Dowsett profile: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/sudiipta-dowsett

5:45- 6:25 - Some publications by Sudiipta

Dowsett, S.S., 2019. Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa. In Walters T; Jepson AS (eds.). Marginalisation and Events, Routledge, pp. 110-126.

Dowsett, Sudiipta Shamalii, 2020, 'The Routes of Hip-Hop in Cape Town: Collective Performance Practices and the Embodied Sociality of the Ghetto', in Peddie I (ed.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 485 - 506


11:20-11:30, 18:55-19:05 - Baker Boy hip hop in English and Yolngu-Matha language (First Nations from Top End Australia). Marryuna, <>

11:35-14:20 - Warlpiri culture (First Nations from Central Australia), Milpirri Festival and connection to place. See Music!Dance!Culture! Ep 3 On Milpirri and digging yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick

Milpirri Festival - https://tracksdance.com.au/landing/lajamanu-milpirri-indigenous

See also Music!Dance!Culture! Ep 5 on hip hop from Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa (details to come)

13:00-13:05 - AAS - The Australian Anthropological Society

19:05-20:40 - Baker Boy’s father dancing to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ from Baker Boy’s Facebook page: <>

Baker Boy’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dabakerboy/

20:40-21:30 - Writer’s Block Crew page: https://soundcloud.com/writersblockcrew

Places referred to

Wangal Country
Nimbin, Wyabal Country, Northern New South Wales
Surry Hills, Gadigal Country, Sydney
Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia
Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 3. On Milpirri and digging yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick

We learn about a Warlpiri traditional culture and hip-hop festival called Milpirri with its creative director Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and his father, Warlpiri elder, Jerry Jangala Patrick who performs Jardiwanpa.

Produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan with guest co-producers Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick. Theme music by Mahesh, produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with sound samples from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Jangala, Jampijinpa, the Lajamanu Community, Tracks Dance Company, Monkey Marc, Grace Marshall, PAW Media, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society,  PARADISEC, Alexis Weaver , Samuel Curkpatrick, Bronwyn Griffiths, Jennifer Biddle, the Curran-Palmer Family and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan.

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Music featured from Milpirri by Tracks Inc., Jampijinpa, Jangala and Lajamanu Community

• Discipline:  https://vimeo.com/321366994?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9282219 
• Justice - Restoring the Balance (Coming to get ya)  : https://vimeo.com/321366955?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=9282219

Other music

• Emu Dreaming song by Monkey Marc and Elf Transporter with Wanta Jampijinpa Patrick, Jangala  and Lajamanu community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK1s5kc7nk 

Other links:

• Tracks Dance Company: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/landing/lajamanu-milpirri-home-page
• Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP190100552) Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony
• Monkey Marc: https://www.monkeymarc.org/ 
• Elf Tranzporter in conversation with Wanta Jampijinpa  - Palka: http://on.soundcloud.com/ABAZt
• Warlpiri skin names https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/skins.html 
• Yankirri – digging for knowledge: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/milpirri-dance/yankirri-emu-digging-knowledge-2007-2016
• Milpirri colour groups: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/colour-groups-0

Research publications on Milpirri

• Dowsett, Sudiipta Shamalii 2021. Sampling Ceremony: Hip-hop Workshops and Intergeneration Cultural Production in the Central Australian Desert. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 22(2-3): 184-202. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442213.2021.1914713?journalCode=rtap20 
• Patrick, W. S. J., and J. L. Biddle. 2018. “Not Just Ceremony, Not Just Dance, Not Just Idea: Milpirri as Hyperrealism, a Key Word Discussion.” Visual Anthropology Review 34 (1): 27–35. http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12150

This ep dedicated to the late Rachel Outschoorn explores Portuguese Burgher káfriinha. Guests:  A/Prof. Hugo Cardoso, Asian Portuguese creole language expert, then Newton & Felicita Sellar, Angelo & Tharniya Pietersz, Kiliptan Sellar & Rushman Outschoorn who play in one of the main Portuguese Burgher music and dance groups in Batticaloa.

Synopsis
Mahesh:  káfriinha in Portuguese Burgher culture and Sri Lanka present and past.
Hugo Cardoso: how he got into studying Asian Portuguese creole languages,  language situation in South Asia following Portuguese colonialism,  first impressions of Indo-Portuguese performance,  value of music in language documentation and revitalisation, song 'Montááyantu loteem ooru' performed by Rachel Outschoorn with Newton Sellar.
Links:
DSLP FB page: https://www.facebook.com/srilankaportuguese/
SLP language learning instagram page (Patrícia Costa & Vyvonne Joseph): https://www.instagram.com/srilankaportuguese/
Newton Sellar and group: what is káfriinha,  importance of káfriinha to Portuguese Burgher identity, earliest memories of music,  women in káfriinha, the significance of "sakudii" (shaking) in káfriinha dance movement, hopes for the future.
Burgher Folks: https://www.facebook.com/Burgher-Folks-Sri-Lanka-108371357178747

Music featured
Live performances
- Second káfriinha - Tharniya Pietersz (violin) [1:17:17-1:17:49]
- Tééra isti tééra - Burgher Folks - [1:22:37-1:24:59]
- Boos boos boos boos- Burgher Folks - [1:25:43-1:27:09]
From Cardoso, Hugo C. 2017. Documentation of Sri Lanka Portuguese. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-CB5E-2.
- slp049_8 Rachel Outschoorn- koranjaniita (song), [0:06-0:36]
- slp035_1 Newton Sellar house rehearsal [2:03-3:54]
- slp095_1 Newton Sellar & group at Eastern University (áádi aavndu kapáátu) [3:50-4:30]
- slp059_4 Philomena Jonathan báyla songs [13:57-16:03]
- slp040_6 Iva Andrado (violin), Edward Outschoorn (rabáána), Remina Andrado, Frida Silva, Jacinta Silva, Noel Sellar (saláári) - song: béétál yabotáá [23:50-24:45]
- slp001 Afro-Sri Lankan performance Colombo (Arabi Chayaca Lora) [31:57-33:30]
- slp039_1  Fourth káfriinha [46:54-50:39]
- slp039_2 (Fifth káfriinha) [1:02:24-1:05:45]
- slp039_7 Rachel & Newton: montááyantu loteem ooru [39:33-41:32]
From Ian Russell Smith (collector), 1973. Indo-Portuguese (Sri Lanka). Collection IRS01 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E825242DE0C
- IRS01-SLP15-A- Batéé Batéé, Hector Tenarrenz, Rennie Ockersz, Rachel Outschoorn, Kulaavadi group with music. (Recorded simultaneously by Ian Smith and Kenneth David Jackson [12:40-16:26 in orig, 1:29:01-1:32:56 in podcast]
- IRS01-SLP13-B,  "Music played when bride and groom are going to their room. Recorded 26/5/74, Batticaloa. Announcer Ronald Rosairo (born 1906).  Clarence Hendrick – leader & violin, Monica Ockersz – violin, Freddy Sellar - mandolin, Festus Peters – guitar, Ivo (Iva) Andrado – drum" [8:25-10:13 in orig, 9:43-11:43 in podcast] and "Cafferinha dance (third)" [20:10-22:00 in orig, 58:28-59:23 podcast]
Other
- Vāda baila by MS Fernando and Milton Silva (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDjfhu9Q-nw) [7:45-8:20]

Produced by Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan & Georgia Curran
Theme music by Mahesh remixed by Arian Pearson

Thanks to Australian Anthropological Society, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, PARADISEC, Hugo Cardoso, Ian Smith, Kenneth David Jackson, Newton & Felicita Sellar, Angelo & Tharniya Pietersz, Kiliptan Sellar, Rushman Outschoorn, Joe Gould, Vera Williams Tetteh, Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan and Dinali Fernando.

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In Part 2 of our first episode, we discuss the study of diverse musics and the value of ethnomusicology as it has developed over the 21st century. We interview Emeritus Professor Anthony Seeger about growing up in a family central to the American folk music scene, his field research with the Kisedje in Brazil, and his roles as the director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University and Smithsonian Institution. Seeger speaks about establishing ‘Smithsonian Folkways Recordings’ which brings together rich collections of socially engaged music from various parts of the world. This episode includes some tracks from one of these albums ‘Vocal Art of the Suyà’ which Seeger produced in collaboration with the Kisedje, as well as some more recent activist musical responses to the current pandemic environment.

“It seemed to me that there was something about music that had an impact not just on aesthetics and beauty and how we feel about lovely things, but on the everyday actions of people, the lives of people and the activities of government.” Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California 

Links to resources

 ·      ‘The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music’, guest edited by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan –https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14442213.2021.1913511 

·      ‘Musical Connections Amid the Global Pandemic’ curated by Nicholas Ng –https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/iac/music_and_performing_arts/musical_connections_amid_the_global_pandemic_-_series_1 

·      ‘Stellar Mansions’ composed by Nicholas Ng –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86G3VWH6dCQ 

·      ‘Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People’ by Anthony Seeger – https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p072024  

·      ‘Ethnomusicology Matters’ edited by Marko Kölbl, Marko, Hande Saglam and Ursula Hemetek – https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/52e79713-c8c8-440b-9261-7a226b947ab0/external_content.pdf 

·      Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – https://folkways.si.edu/ 

·      SLDRT! By Le Monde est en Flammes –  https://lemondeestenflammes.bandcamp.com/. Donate through ‘Wave of Hope’ –https://www.facebook.com/WaveOfHopeForTheFuture 

·      Australian Anthropology Society 2021 conference – www.aasconf.org 

·     Mugglestone, E., 1981. Guido Adler's “The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology”(1885): An English Translation with an Historic-Analytical Commentary. Yearbook for Traditional Music, Volume 13, pages 1-21.

·      Australian Anthropology Society (AAS) 2021 conference (24 Nov-1 Dec 2021) –   www.aasconf.org 

Note regarding AAS conference: Panel on 'Continuity and change in performance' hosted by Georgia and Mahesh on 30 Nov 2021. See website or show notes for Episode 1 Part 1 for details.

Music and dance are at the heart of many significant cultural events and often represent and affirm distinct cultural identities. In Part 1 of our first episode we discuss the value of music and dance in diverse cultural contexts and reflect on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on musical expression in various cultural contexts. We chat to Arian Pearson, Yolngu musician, producer and Head Sound Engineer with Mulka Music, about his passion for community music projects and development as well as some of the exciting activities going on in East Arnhem Land.  

“I truly believe that music is a part of development for every human being growing up” Arian Pearson, Yolngu musician and producer

Links to resources

·      ‘The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music’, guest edited by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan –https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14442213.2021.1913511 

·      ‘Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of the Bosavi’, produced by Steven Feld and Dennis Leonard ­– https://www.voicesoftherainforest.org/ 

·      East Arnhem Live concert series – https://www.eastarnhemland.com.au/east-arnhem-live 

·      Djatpangarri by Yirrnga Yunupingu (produced by Arian Pearson) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCmtMrPjZg 

·      Märi Wurrapa, by Dhapanbal Yunupingu (produced by Arian Pearson) - https://music.apple.com/au/album/m%C3%A4ri-wurrapa/1365589822?i=1365590145

·      Dhapanbal Yunupingu - https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/dhapanbal-yunupingu/ 

·      The Mulka Project – https://yirrkala.com/about-the-mulka-project/  (above photo of Arian Pearson from this website)

·      East Journey – https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/east-journey/ 

·      ‘Reflections and Voices: Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi’ with Mandawuy Yunupingu, by Aaron Corn – https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/products/78828 

·      The National Recording Project – http://www.aboriginalartists.com.au/NRP.htm 

·      Australian Anthropology Society (AAS) 2021 conference (24 Nov-1 Dec 2021) –   www.aasconf.org 

Note regarding AAS conference: Panel on 'Continuity and change in performance' hosted by Dr. Georgia Curran (she/her) and Dr. Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (they/them) on 30 Nov 2021. Panel access requires registration with payment (see website for details). Plenary sessions (on 24, 25 and 26 Nov) featuring First Nations scholars are open access to First Nations peoples. For details on how to register, please email the plenary convenor Dr Gretchen Stolte (Nez Perce, she/her) directly for further information on how to access them (gretchen.stolte(AT)uwa.edu.au).

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Music!Dance!Culture! is a show for anyone who loves music, dance and other performing arts around the world and the study of it. Hosts Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan introduce the podcast what it's all about and what to expect from Season 1.

Features the show theme music composed and performed by Mahesh and remixed and produced by Arian Pearson.

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