Aboriginal Sound Instruments
Recorded by: Alice M. Moyle
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ISBN 978 0 85575 646 8

Recorded at a number of different localities in northern Australia, the sound instruments featured include idiophones (paired sticks, boomerang clapsticks, rasps); the membranophone (the hand-beaten, single-headed, skin drum from Cape York, Queensland) and the aerophone, generally known as the didjeridu.


Djambidj
An Aboriginal Song Series from Northern Australia
Performed by: Frank Gurrmanamana and Frank Malkorda (singers) and Sam Gumgum (didjeridu accompanist).
Sound recordings by: Bryan Butler
Edited by: Bryan Butler and Stephen Wild
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ISBN 978 0 85575 647 5

Recording of a single song series, from the people of the Blyth River near Maningrida, made at a concert performance held in Canberra. The songs concern the actions of spirit beings, the Wangarr. This is the song cycle heard in the Institute film Waiting for Harry.


Modern Music of the Torres Strait
Recordings by: Jeremy Beckett
Edited by: Jeremy Beckett and Bryan Butler
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ISBN 978 0 85575 648 2

Includes hymns, laments, dance songs, chants, war songs and a wedding song. Modern Island music is played with instruments such as guitars and ukuleles.


Rak Badjalarr
Wangga Songs from North Peron Island
Performed by: Bobby Lane, Northern Territory, Australia
CD and booklet $27.50 incl. GST, plus postage

ISBN 978 0 85575 364 1

Accompanying Bobby Lane are Colin Warrambu Ferguson, Roger Rossy Yarrowin, Nicholas Djarug and Ian Bilbil. The didgeridu players include Djarug, Bilbil and Eric Martin.

CD recorded by Allan Marett,Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford, booklet compiled by Linda Barwick from original research by all three.

Wangga songs are normally received in dream by songmen, and unlike many other Aboriginal song genres are usually owned by individual songmen rather than by a larger social group. Wangga are normally sung by one or two men, specialist singers, accompanying themselves on clapsticks while another performer plays the didjeridu. Wangga songs are performed for entertainment and ceremony, retaining their spiritual power while being adaptable to contemporary occasions. These songs derive from the traditional homelands of the Wadjiginy and Kiyuk peoples. Rak Badjalarr refers to North Peron Island in the Cox Peninsula region south and west of Darwin in the Northern Territory.


Songs from the Kimberleys
Recorded by: Alice M. Moyle.
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ISBN 978 0 85575 649 9

The Kimberleys offer a rich tapestry of musical styles, and many of them are documented on this recording. There are 'contact' topics, such as air raid and soldiers marching, evident in several of the song styles. The use of the rasp as accompaniment is unique to this area.


Songs from the Northern Territory
Recorded by: Alice M. Moyle
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Box set of 5 $60.00 incl. GST
Postage $10.00 incl. GST

1. ABORIGINAL MUSIC FROM WESTERN ARNHEM LAND
This recording features Western Arnhem Land didje

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ISBN 978 0 85575 650 5

2. ABORIGINAL MUSIC FROM EASTERN ARNHEM LAND
The Brolga corroboree is sung, alternating with other songs and the surrounding camp sounds. Also includes a demonstration of the Eastern Arnhem Land style of didjeridu playing.

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ISBN 978 0 85575 651 2

3. ABORIGINAL MUSIC FROM YIRRKALA AND MILINGIMBI, NORTH-EASTERN ARNHEM LAND
Contains mortuary singing and children's songs, including a song played by an eleven-year-old didjeridu player. Also features the song 'Comic', based on cartoons shown during the Second World War.

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ISBN 978 0 85575 652 9

4. ABORIGINAL MUSIC FROM NORTH-EASTERN ARNHEM LAND INCLUDING GROOTE EYLANDT
Songs from Milingimbi, Yirrkala and Groote Eylandt, showing some intricate didjeridu accompaniments.

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ISBN 978 0 85575 653 6


5. ABORIGINAL MUSIC - TRAVELLING SONGS ('SONG LINES') FROM SOUTHERN ARNHEM LAND; ALSO SONGS FROM BATHURST AND MELVILLE ISLANDS
This title contains demonstrations of the use of boomerang clapsticks as accompaniment to songs. Also featured are some eisteddfod items sung by boys from Bathurst and Melville Islands, as well as some songs from Milingimbi and an 'Island Dance' song performed with guitars and ukulele.

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ISBN 978 0 85575 654 3


The Songs of Dougie Young
Jointly produced by Aboriginal Studies Press and the National Library of Australia
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ISBN 978 0 85575 655 0

A collection of songs by the late Aboriginal singer Dougie Young, who began writing and performing around Wilcannia and western New South Wales in the 1950s and '60s. His songs tell of the life of Aboriginal people in Wilcannia — and also explore Aboriginality in a way that was quite original for the time, touching on oppression, racism and land rights.


Traditional Music of the Torres Strait
Recorded by: Jeremy Beckett
Additional material by: LaMont West.
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ISBN 978 0 85575 656 7

This varied recording offers examples of some songs whose melodies have remained virtually the same since they were first recorded in 1898. Dance songs and funeral chants from Murray Island with drum accompaniment comprise one side of the tape, and the other includes instrumental demonstrations and music from other islands of the Torres Strait as well as some Papuan material.