Item details
Item ID
RB2-20190710
Title Goulburn Island group join junba singers and dancers to rehearse wangga and manyardi.
Description David Manmurulu, Jenny Manmurulu, Rupert Manmurulu, Renfred Manmurulu, Solomon Nangamu, Folau Umbagai, Peter O'Connor, Reuben Brown and others rehearse and perform manyardi and wangga with local performers and children from Mowanjum and surrounds, 11 July 2019. Solomon Nangamu and Rupert Manmurulu (didj) accompany Folau Umbagai singing one song item composed by Button Jones; Solomon Nangamu (didj) accompanies David and Rupert Manmurulu with two Inyjalarrku song items; Rupert Manmurulu (didj) accompanies Solomon Nangamu and David Manmurulu (back up singer) with three Yalarrkuku/Mirrijpu song items, including a previously unrecorded song (MP31); Solomon Nangamu (didj) accompanies David Manmurulu singing Ngili (Mosquito). Renfred Manmurulu, Reuben Brown, and Peter O'Connor lead the men dancers and Jenny Manmurulu leads the women dancers. Audio recorded by James Howard on Sound Devices 788T with 1x Rode NT4 Microphone and edited by Reuben Brown.

Comprises full recordings 20190710-JH_03.wav; 20190710-JH_04.wav; 20190710-RBv_01.MP4; 20190710-RBv_02.MP4

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20190710-JH_04.wav segmented into 20190710-JH_04_01_IL02.wav; 20190710-JH_04_02_IL02.wav; 20190710-JH_04_03_IL02_IL50_nigi.wav
20190710-JH_04_04_XX.wav; 20190710-JH_04_05_MP26.wav; 20190710-JH_04_06_XX.wav; 20190710-JH_04_07_MP26.wav; 20190710-JH_04_08_MP23.wav; 20190710-JH_04_09_MP31.wav; 20190710-JH_04_10_XX.wav; 20190710-JH_04_11_Ngili_mosquito_01.wav
20190710-JH_04_12_Ngili_mosquito_02.wav; 20190710-JH_04_13_XX.wav; 20190710-JH_04_14_IL07_nigi.wav
Origination date
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/RB2/20190710
URL
Collector
Reuben Brown
Countries
Language as given Mawng|English
Subject language(s)
Content language(s) To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect
Region / village Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Northern Territory
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator
Data Categories
Data Types
Discourse type
Roles Rupert Manmurulu : performer
Solomon Nangamu : performer
David Manmurulu : performer
Jenny Manmurulu : performer
Renfred Manmurulu : performer
Folau Umbagai : performer
DOI 10.26278/S9DM-C955
Cite as Reuben Brown (collector), Rupert Manmurulu (performer), Solomon Nangamu (performer), David Manmurulu (performer), Jenny Manmurulu (performer), Renfred Manmurulu (performer), Folau Umbagai (performer). Goulburn Island group join junba singers and dancers to rehearse wangga and manyardi.. MPEG/VND.WAV/MP4/MXF. RB2-20190710 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/S9DM-C955
Content Files (46)
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RB2-20190710-JH_03.mp3 audio/mpeg 7.48 MB 00:08:10.12
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RB2-20190710-JH_04_01_IL02.mp3 audio/mpeg 1.45 MB 00:01:34.623
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RB2-20190710-JH_04_02_IL02.mp3 audio/mpeg 1.62 MB 00:01:45.725
RB2-20190710-JH_04_02_IL02.wav audio/vnd.wav 58.3 MB 00:01:45.697
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RB2-20190710-JH_04_06_XX.wav audio/vnd.wav 15.4 MB 00:00:27.559
RB2-20190710-JH_04_07_MP26.mp3 audio/mpeg 1.69 MB 00:01:50.740
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Collection Information
Collection ID RB2
Collection title Kun-borrk/manyardi (song and dance from western Arnhem Land) and other performances, 2011-2019
Description Recordings of performances of kun-borrk/manyardi public ceremony from western Arnhem Land and interviews/discussion with singers/performers sharing their knowledge of public ceremony and archival recordings. Includes the following:

- Brown's PhD fieldwork recordings, 2011-2016 (see Reuben Brown, 'Following footsteps: The kun-borrk/manyardi song tradition and its role in western Arnhem Land society', [2016] PhD thesis, University of Syndey <http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15671>) including a mamurrng ceremony, funeral ceremony, local festivals and elicitation sessions recorded at various locations in western Arnhem Land and an academic conference in Canberra. Fieldwork funded by Australian Research Council funded project 'Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American- Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land' (DP1096897)
- Recordings at a reburial ceremony at Gunbalanya, 2011, produced for 'Etched in Bone' by Martin Thomas and BĂ©atrice Bijon
- Recordings of manyardi at Warruwi (2013) as part filming of 'Language Matters with Bob Holman' by Grubin Productions
- Recordings at Warruwi (2016-2017) with Ruth Singer for Faculty Research Grant investigating use of technology in maintenance of Mawng Language funded by University of Melbourne
- Recordings at the Wilin Centre, Melbourne (2017-2019) for the annual Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures workshops and symposia
- Recordings at Mowanjum, WA (2019) for the Mowanjum festival, funded by Early Career Research Grant 'Mobilising recordings of western Arnhem Land song to revitalise Exchange', University of Melbourne.
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Access Information
Edit access Reuben Brown
Henry Reese
View/Download access Tara Rostron
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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