Indigenous Performance in Australia
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The NRP series of albums and books raise
awareness about Australia’s unique Indigenous performace traditions, and promote excellence in
this field.
The first volume in the NRP book series is Reflections & Voices: Exploring the music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupiŋu by Aaron Corn.
In Reflections & Voices, Aaron Corn takes readers on a captivating journey with Mandawuy Yunupiŋu through the ideas and events behind some of Yothu Yindi’s best known songs.
Together they locate the band within a continuum of traditional practice that records the beauty of Arnhem Land as experienced by Mandawuy’s ancestors, and has guided local engagements with
visitors from across the Arafura Sea for countless centuries.
They reveal how Mandawuy’s work as an educator and musician championed the continuing importance of traditional Indigenous
thought and practice to contemporary life in Australia.It can be purchased from the SUP eStore here.
The second book in this series will be Wangga Songs of NW Australia: Recordings, Song-Texts and Translations in Their Historical and Ethnographic Contexts by Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford.
The first album of the NRP series is Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kuninjku Elder Kevin Djimarr.
An exemplie of the Kun-Borrk song tradition from Western Arnhem Land, it was recognised with an award for Traditional Music at the 2007 NT Music Awards.
It can be purchased from the SUP eStore here.
Forthcoming albums will feature the Wangga, Djanba, Lirrga and Kun-Borrk song traditions of the northwest NT.