Bøger om Northern Territory

It's really great. It's like they're all here. I hear all of these voices and I sing with them, you know? - Yikliya Eustace Tipiloura, senior songman and ElderPerhaps the most defining feature of Tiwi song is the importance placed on the creative innovation of the individual singer/composer. Tiwi songs are fundamentally new, unique and occasion specific, and yet sit within a continuum of an oral artistic tradition. Performed in ceremony, at public events, for art and for fun, songs form the core of the Tiwi knowledge system and historical archive. Held by song custodians and taught through sung and danced ritual, generations of embodied practice are still being created and accumulated as people continue to sing.In 2009 Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim over 1300 recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, that are held in the archives at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). The Old Songs are Always New explores the return home of these recordings to the Tiwi Islands and describes the musical and vocal characteristics, performance context and cultural function of the twelve Tiwi song types, giving an overview of the linguistic and poetic devices used by Tiwi composers.For the past 16 years Campbell has been working closely with Tiwi song custodians, studying contemporary Tiwi song culture in the context of the maintenance of traditions and the development of new music forms. Their musical collaboration has resulted in public performances, community projects and recordings featuring current senior singers and the voices of the repatriated recordings. For this publication, Elders have enabled the transcription of many song texts and melodies for the first time, shedding light on how generations of Tiwi singers have connected the past with the present in a continuum of knowledge transmission and arts practice.

A beautiful book that brings many lifetimes of sung Tiwi knowledge to the page for the first time.

NINU EASTER BILBY by Lyndall StavrouIn the Australian desert, a bilby sets out on his quest to become an Easter bilby. Ninu seeks help from other bush animals and the people that he discovers on his journey. Ninu's arrival at a little bush school gives him the opportunity he seeks.Bright and engaging illustrations by Jann Forge.Features Indigenous people, native animals and bush foods. A few Warlpiri language words are used. Warlpiri is spoken widely throughout the desert regions in the Northern Territory.Bilby facts page included on the back.

YELLOW DOG by Lyndall StavrouThe touching story of a homeless pup taken in by a family and his subsequent adventures. Based on a true story. Set in an Indigenous Community.Beautifully illustrated by Jenny Taylor.Very popular with young Aboriginal children. A few words from Warumungu, the local Indigenous language are used in the text.

NAPANGARDI'S BUSH TUCKER WALK by Lyndall StavrouGorgeous illustrations by Jann Forge combine with a delightful bush narrative featuring Australian animals and bush tucker. A surprising twist at the end. The story is told in such a way as to delight young children through repetitive phrases and humour. It informs about the culture of contemporary Indigenous Australians. Some Alyawarr words for bush tucker and animals are listed on the inner back cover. Alyawarr is spoken in the Northern Territory and in far west Queensland.

Baby Bilby and the WildcatA lyrical narrative evocative of the Australian Outback. The story features an endangered animal, a feral cat and an Indigenous boy. The story is designed to engage, entertain and inform young children about environmental issues. Superb illustrations capture the colours and textures of the Outback.Bilby facts are on the back cover.