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Contents

List of Illustrations, Maps and Figures

Foreword
Otto Jungarrayi Sims

Acknowledgments
Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. Song and ceremony in Indigenous Australia
Chapter 2. Yuendumu: A Brief Social History
Chapter 3. Warlpiri Songs: Rights, Genres, and Ceremonial Contexts
Chapter 4. Kurdiji, a Ceremony for "Making Young Men"
Chapter 5. Holding Warlpiri Songs: Addressing Musical Endangerment

Conclusion

Appendix of songs from the Kurdiji Ceremony
Glossary
References
Index

Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

Georgia Curran
Foreword by Otto Jungarrayi Sims

206 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78920-607-4 Hb Published (January 2020)

eISBN 978-1-78920-608-1 eBook