MUS200H1 Lecture Notes - Circular Breathing, Experimental Music, Yothu Yindi
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Largest country in region, settled about 50,000 years ago, aborigines, relatively isolated geographically and culturally, has unique flora and fauna, and some of the most complex kinds of socio-cultural systems. Wangga: public song genre from northern australia, performed for boys" circumcision; ceremonies for disposing of the belongings of the dead; general entertainment, given by spirits to songmen in dreams, wangga green frog . A land a man was free to wander. Fifty thousand years in the spirit of dreamtime. Two hundred years ago the white fella found. A land he thought that no one owned. The white man came and pulled it down under. You"ve changed our ways, our laws, our land. Or there"ll be nothing left in the land down under. I learn from you, you learn from me. Be as brothers in the land down under. Incorporation of didjeridu, clapsticks, and aboriginal song form in the midst of a pop song.
