City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Songspirals, sharing women's wisdom of country through songlines, Gay'wu group of women

eng

Includes bibliographical refrences and index

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Songspirals

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Gay'wu group of women

sharing women's wisdom of country through songlines

Aboriginal Australian cultures are the oldest living cultures on earth and at the heart of Aboriginal cultures is song. These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map, but they are much, much more than this. Songspirals are sung by Aboriginal people to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. Songspirals are radically different ways of understanding the relationship people can have with the landscape. For Yolngu people from North East Arnhem Land, women and men play different roles in bringing songlines to life, yet the vast majority of what has been published is about men's place in songlines. Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form

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Song spirals