iDIDJ Australia Didgeridoo Cultural Hub

Recently broadcast on Radio National, (ABC Radio, Australia).

This Song is from Ever Since: Songs for Wagilak Country

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/s ... 253099.htm

no podcast - have to stream.

Will likely only be available for a week.

Thanks Peter!

Kyle

Thanks for posting this. The article has me curious. They refer to "NE Arnhem Land" and then they discuss places like "Jawoyan country" and "Beswick Falls". Perhaps I'm confused, but I thought the aforementioned areas were closer to Kakadu and Barunga. I'd think these would better be described as Central, or even South Central Arnhem Land. I could have a case of "didj bias" though - people like us tend to view the geography of the area in terms of didjeridu configurations and playing styles.

Roy alives in the Katherine region that's why there's reference to places in that locality like Beswick Falls etc. But his songs are all about Wagilak clan history and focussed on eastern Arnhem Land. Hope that helps.

Guan

Oops...I totally forgot about ancestral homelands vs. where a person may call home today. Now it makes sense. Thanks!

Its pretty much the same everywhere and for most Yolngu... communities after all are artificial constructs away from people's ancestral homelands. Gupapuyngu singing at Ramingining and Milingimbi, or even Gove, singing about Gupapuyngu estate and mythology etc. etc.

G