Full Description
Reflections and Voices takes readers on a captivating journey with Yothu Yindu and their lead singer and songwriter, Mandawuy Yunupingu. Locating 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. It also reveals how Mandawuy's work as an educator and musician championed the continuing importance of traditional Indigenous thought and practice to contemporary life in Australia.
Contents
Foreword
Allan Marett
Preface
Mandawuy Yunupiŋu and Galarrwuy Yunupiŋu
Acknowledgements
A note on orthography
Introduction
Reflections
1. A band with a vision
2. Who are the Yolŋu?
3. Child and mother
4. Voices of eternity
5. Visitors from abroad
6. Resistance on the frontier
7. The struggle for justice
8. Hope for the future
A legacy of hope
Voices
1. 'Djäpana: sunset dreaming'
2. 'Mainstream'
3. 'Treaty'
4. 'Tribal voice'
5. 'Timeless land'
6. 'World turning'
7. 'Dots on the shells'
8. 'Ghost spirits'
Conclusions
Dancing trees: an epilogue
Marcia Langton
Glossary
Discography
Chronology
References
About the authors
