Reflections and Voices: Exploring the Music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupingu

Barwick, Linda, Corn, Professor Aaron

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.

EAN

9781920899349

Publisher

Sydney University Press

Published

30 July 2009

Pages

148