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Episode 7: Taking Inyjalarrku around the world and carrying it on with Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Reuben Brown

Senior Mawng songmen, musicians and brothers, Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu from Warruwi (Goulburn Island) and non-Indigenous scholar Dr. Reuben Brown talk to us about manyardi (a song ceremony from western Arnhem Land), in particular, the Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ songset and dance ceremony. We discuss their research collabs, Reuben’s Mamurrng* “gift” ceremony, Rupert and Renfred’s father’s father, the late George Winunguj MBE, new adaptations, hopes for the future, Reuben’s new book “The Gift of Song” and more! Disclaimers The knowledge in this episode is the Indigenous cultural intellectual property (ICIP) of Inyjalarrku manyardi ceremony leaders and custodians. It is used in this podcast with their consent. Further use without proper attribution of the ICIP owners may breach customary laws as well as copyright and moral rights under the Copyright Act 1968 (Australian Govt)  Listeners are advised that we mention and feature the voices of people who have died.  Featured music (with podcast timecodes) 1. Nulatparlangkat (‘fast one’) - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song - Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu with Alfred Gawaraidji, recorded by Reuben Brown  (RB2-20230914-13-IL_nulatparlangkat_old_new_edit). (3:04-4:39) 2. Inyjalarrku by George Winunguj MBE, Kate Conti (collector), Victor Carell (speaker), Dick Roughsey (performer), 1962. Ballet of the South Pacific 1970 . JPEG/TIFF/MPEG/VND.WAV. VCBD-003 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/zcaj-8s50 [https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/zcaj-8s50] (15:56-17:50) 3. Remix - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song - Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Warruwi community. Recorded by Reuben Brown (RB2-20230914-21-IL_remix). (23:24-24:53) 4. Jumpy One - Inyjalarrku ‘mermaid’ ceremony song- Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu and Reuben Brown recorded for Music!Dance!Culture! (36:22-37:27) 5. Iwarruj  (excerpt) - by Warruwi community produced by Wayne Glenn from SoundED with support from West Arnhem Regional Council (42:53-43:43) 6. Indjalarrgu (excerpt), sung by Nambadambal and Nadjalbur with Wandiwandi (didjeridu), Songs from the Northern Territory No.1: Recorded by Alice Moyle in 1962, AIATSIS 1991. (53:08-54:24) 7. Inyjalarrku-Shimauta collaboration (excerpt) - performance by Rupert and Renfred with Marin Naruse, singer and sanshin player from Amami Islands in Japan recorded by Reuben Brown (Inyjalarrku-Shimauta collaboration_01_Lisbon). (57:45-58:50) Reuben Brown recordings to be archived in PARADISEC RB2 collection Research by Reuben Brown on manyardi* Brown, R., O'Keeffe, I., Manmurulu, R., Manmurulu, R. and Manmurulu, J., 2024. ‘Remix!' Continuity through innovation in the manyardi song tradition of western Arnhem Land. In Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change, G. Curran and M. White-Radhakrishnan (eds.). Routledge. ISBN: 9781032693965 [https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781032693965]  Brown, R., 2024. The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003216339 [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003216339]  Credits Music!Dance!Culture! is produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan, this episode co-produced with Reuben Brown, Rupert and Renfred Manmurulu, theme music by Mahesh remixed by Arian Pearson, transitions by Mahesh and Alexis Weaver. Special thanks to the Manmurulu family and Warruwi community, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, PARADISEC, Wayne Glenn from Sounded, Jodie Kell, Amanda Harris, Isabel O’Keefe, Kate Conti, AIATSIS, our reviewers, beta listeners and supporters.  *Visit music-dance-culture.com [http://music-dance-culture.com] for more detailed shownotes including a glossary and more research

Episode 6: "The sounds of shackles breaking" with Soundz of the South

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 6: "The sounds of shackles breaking" with Soundz of the South Soundz of the South (SoS) is a Hip Hop group/movement from the outskirts of Cape Town building an international working-class counter-culture. In this episode co-produced with guests researcher Sudiipta & interviewees Anela, Tsidi Bang Bang, Khanya Athule from SoS, we discuss activism and art, SoS's creative response to xenophobic violence in South Africa and challenging gender injustice. Languages: English, isiXhosa. See this on YouTube: (https://youtu.be/qar0CYlNZz0 [https://youtu.be/qar0CYlNZz0]). Images featured by Sudiipta Dowsett or with permission from Soundz of the South  Music featured Thina by Soundz of the South featuring Java, Anela, Karl Myz, Millz and Tsidi - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/thina [https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/thina] (excerpt 1:38-3:00) Train Cypher against Xenophobia by Soundz of the South(SOS), Poetics and Phillippi High Speaks (2015) shot by C'de Anele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpTLhbGtho [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpTLhbGtho] (excerpt 9:05-10:48 featuring Lukhanyo Zondani aka Freeze Jargon rapping and Millz The First leading a struggle song) Dragons Head by Soundz of the South featuring rapper Skills, Anela Jahmena and Sudiipta, beats by Kunta Official Beats from album K'ltsha Kulture album produced as part of Sudiipta's PhD research - https://open.spotify.com/track/0cu3p0d8WvTiwakcpMMVeL?si=075245998fe34def [https://open.spotify.com/track/0cu3p0d8WvTiwakcpMMVeL?si=075245998fe34def] (18:21-22:34) (features excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech) Anisaboni by Soundz of the South from album Freedom Warriors Vol. 4. - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/anisaboni [https://sos1.bandcamp.com/track/anisaboni] (26:41-31:24) Zivume by Soundz of the South from album Words of Rebel Sistah - (explained 37:01-38:35 and excerpt sung live 41:43-41:55) - https://soundcloud.com/s_os/zivume-anela-sos?in=s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing [https://soundcloud.com/s_os/zivume-anela-sos?in=s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing] Words of Rebel Sistah compilation - https://soundcloud.com/s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah [https://soundcloud.com/s_os/sets/words-of-rebel-sistah] (42:45-44:55) Links: Website - https://www.soundzofthesouth.org/ [https://www.soundzofthesouth.org/] Bandcamp - https://sos1.bandcamp.com/ Crossroads: I live where I like by Koni Benson (2014) (40:15-42:44)  Research by Dr. Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-sudiipta-shamalii-dowsett/publications Rebel Sistah Cypher: Hip-hop as embodied practice for social change -https://freilich.anu.edu.au/research/projects/rebel-sistah-cypher-hip-hop-embodied-practice-social-change-0 [https://freilich.anu.edu.au/research/projects/rebel-sistah-cypher-hip-hop-embodied-practice-social-change-0] -- Music!Dance!Culture! is produced by Georgia Curran & Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. This ep guest co-produced with Sudiipta Dowsett & Soundz of the South members Anela Jahmena, Tsidi Bang Bang & Khanya Baba. Theme music by Mahesh, remixed & produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh featuring transitions by Alexis Weaver. Thanks to all artists featured in this episode. Thanks to Sydney Conservatorium of Music, SCM Work in Progress Group, University of New South Wales, PARADISEC, Australian Anthropological Society, the Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry (Australian National University) and our supporters. www.music-dance-culture.com

Episode 5: Born for this gift with amaXhosa rapper MC Kideo

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 3. Born for this gift with amaXhosa rapper MC Kideo In this episode co-produced with guests researcher Sudiipta Dowsett and interviewee amaXhosa rapper MC Kideo (aka Makhi Mketho), we hear about Kideo’s journey becoming a rapper growing up in Khayelitsha a township on the outskirts of Cape Town in South Africa’s western cape. Kideo talks about the influence of traditional forms such as Imbongi poetry and Kwaito music on his own development as a rapper, the way he began by performing the verses of others and gradually introduced his own, the role of other hiphop artists and spaces to exhibit his work and his heartfelt reflections on the tensions between amaXhosa traditional culture and the influence of western culture and Christianity. Features recorded music tracks and a sample of live performance. Contains some strong language and brief reference to violence. Featured photo of MC Kideo taken by Laduduma Music featured by MC Kideo and other artists Kutyiwa by MC Kideo (Backyard Crew) releaesed 2016  - https://soundcloud.com/kideolakakintlebackyard/kideo-kutyiwa (excerpt: 1:55-2:40) Emthandazwen by Spijojo Heavyweight produced by Joejo. (6:08-7:13) Poetry performance by HRH Zolani Mkiva for 2010 Fifa Men’s World Cup -  FNB Praise Singer (8:07-8:52) I'm Not In a Hurry by Kideo featuring Soska & Agmaad released 2013. (12:24-13:22) Ndizobhubha by MC Kideo released 2017 (16:36-20:11) Kutyiwa by MC Kideo (see details above) (full track 27:48-30:51) Live performance of verse from track One-Two (31:14-31:49) Unyana Wolahleko by MC Kideo ft Sudiipta Dowsett and Shadow (aka Left Eye) due for release by Monotoca Music in 2023 (33:55-39:31) Sound effect samples used Radio tuning noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GIrIs4Q_y4&t=2s Fire sound effect in high quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz9ftphTWTM&t=11s Research by Dr. Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett Dowsett S, 2020, 'The Routes of Hip-Hop in Cape Town: Collective Performance Practices and the Embodied Sociality of the Ghetto', in Peddie I (ed.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 485 - 506 Dowsett S, 2019, 'Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa', in Walters T; Jepson AS (ed.), Marginalisation and Events, Routledge Dowsett, Sudiipta. Revolutionary but gangsta: hip-hop in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Diss. UNSW Sydney, 2017. Glossary amaXhosa - Xhosa people isiXhosa - Xhosa language spaza - a genre of rap music from the townships near Cape Town kwaito - a form of South African popular dance music  Imbongi - South African praise poet Music Dance Culture is produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. This episode is guest co-produced with Sudiipta Dowsett and MC Kideo, also known as Makhi Mketho, a big thanks to both of them. Theme music by Mahesh, remixed and produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh featuring transitions by Alexis Weaver. Thank you to all the artists featured in this episode: MC Kideo, Backyard Crew, Soska, Agmaad, Shadow also known as Left Eye, Heavyweight Spijojo and The Honorable Zolani Mkiva - links in our shownotes. Thanks also for support from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of New South Wales, Abongile Biggz Aprils and PARADISEC and to our beta listeners James Humberstone and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan.

Episode 4: Representing place through hip-hop with Sudiipta Dowsett

In this episode we interview researcher and performer Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, our collaborator on the previous episode and the two episodes to come about her research on representing place through hip-hop in First Nations cultures in Central Australia and South Africa as well as her own experience of hip-hop. Music Dance Culture is produced by Georgia Curran (she/her) and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (they/them). Theme music by Mahesh, remixed and produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with inputs from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society, PARADISEC, Sudiipta Dowsett and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan, This episode was recorded and produced on the unceded lands of Aboriginal people of the Sydney region, the Southern Highlands and Northern New South Wales. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all elders past, present and emerging. We would also like to respectfully acknowledge the roots of hip-hop in African American and Afro-Caribbean cultures especially acknowledging the tragic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and celebrate the hopes of emancipation and step towards justice taken on this day, the 19th of June 1865 (Juneteenth). http://music-dance-culture.com [http://music-dance-culture.com] musicdanceculturepodcast@gmail.com [musicdanceculturepodcast@gmail.com] Photo: Sudiipta Dowsett with Metabolism discussing the track 'Got Time' at Phumzile Productions studio in Kuyasa, Western Cape, South Africa. Taken by MC Kideo. Shownotes (chronological) 3:18-3:25 - Mahesh on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show: Dances across the Indian Ocean <> Sudiipta Dowsett profile: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/sudiipta-dowsett 5:45- 6:25 - Some publications by Sudiipta Dowsett, S.S., 2019. Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa. In Walters T; Jepson AS (eds.). Marginalisation and Events, Routledge, pp. 110-126. Dowsett, Sudiipta Shamalii, 2020, 'The Routes of Hip-Hop in Cape Town: Collective Performance Practices and the Embodied Sociality of the Ghetto', in Peddie I (ed.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 485 - 506 11:20-11:30, 18:55-19:05 - Baker Boy hip hop in English and Yolngu-Matha language (First Nations from Top End Australia). Marryuna, <> 11:35-14:20 - Warlpiri culture (First Nations from Central Australia), Milpirri Festival and connection to place. See Music!Dance!Culture! Ep 3 On Milpirri and digging yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick Milpirri Festival - https://tracksdance.com.au/landing/lajamanu-milpirri-indigenous See also Music!Dance!Culture! Ep 5 on hip hop from Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa (details to come) 13:00-13:05 - AAS - The Australian Anthropological Society 19:05-20:40 - Baker Boy’s father dancing to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ from Baker Boy’s Facebook page: <> Baker Boy’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dabakerboy/ 20:40-21:30 - Writer’s Block Crew page: https://soundcloud.com/writersblockcrew Places referred to Wangal Country Nimbin, Wyabal Country, Northern New South Wales Surry Hills, Gadigal Country, Sydney Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa

Episode 3: On Milpirri and digging up yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 3. On Milpirri and digging yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick We learn about a Warlpiri traditional culture and hip-hop festival called Milpirri with its creative director Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and his father, Warlpiri elder, Jerry Jangala Patrick who performs Jardiwanpa. Produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan with guest co-producers Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick. Theme music by Mahesh, produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with sound samples from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Jangala, Jampijinpa, the Lajamanu Community, Tracks Dance Company, Monkey Marc, Grace Marshall, PAW Media, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society,  PARADISEC, Alexis Weaver , Samuel Curkpatrick, Bronwyn Griffiths, Jennifer Biddle, the Curran-Palmer Family and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan. http://music-dance-culture.com [http://music-dance-culture.com] musicdanceculturepodcast@gmail.com [musicdanceculturepodcast@gmail.com] Music featured from Milpirri by Tracks Inc., Jampijinpa, Jangala and Lajamanu Community * Discipline:  https://vimeo.com/321366994?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9282219 [https://vimeo.com/321366994?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9282219]  * Justice - Restoring the Balance (Coming to get ya)  : https://vimeo.com/321366955?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=9282219 [https://vimeo.com/321366955?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=9282219] Other music * Emu Dreaming song by Monkey Marc and Elf Transporter with Wanta Jampijinpa Patrick, Jangala  and Lajamanu community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK1s5kc7nk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK1s5kc7nk]  Other links: * Tracks Dance Company: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/landing/lajamanu-milpirri-home-page [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/easnkqoj1pgyle4/AABdhPrHuwgAnbhMJRA-3V9fa?dl=0] * Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP190100552) Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony * Monkey Marc: https://www.monkeymarc.org/ [https://www.monkeymarc.org/]  * Elf Tranzporter in conversation with Wanta Jampijinpa  - Palka: http://on.soundcloud.com/ABAZt [http://on.soundcloud.com/ABAZt] * Warlpiri skin names https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/skins.html [https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/skins.html]  * Yankirri – digging for knowledge: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/milpirri-dance/yankirri-emu-digging-knowledge-2007-2016 [https://www.tracksdance.com.au/milpirri-dance/yankirri-emu-digging-knowledge-2007-2016] * Milpirri colour groups: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/colour-groups-0 [https://www.tracksdance.com.au/colour-groups-0] Research publications on Milpirri * Dowsett, Sudiipta Shamalii 2021. Sampling Ceremony: Hip-hop Workshops and Intergeneration Cultural Production in the Central Australian Desert. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 22(2-3): 184-202. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442213.2021.1914713?journalCode=rtap20 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442213.2021.1914713?journalCode=rtap20]  * Patrick, W. S. J., and J. L. Biddle. 2018. “Not Just Ceremony, Not Just Dance, Not Just Idea: Milpirri as Hyperrealism, a Key Word Discussion.” Visual Anthropology Review 34 (1): 27–35. http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12150 [http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12150]