The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands

by Genevieve Campbell

It's really great. It's like they're all here. I hear all of these voices and I sing with them, you know? - Yikliya Eustace Tipiloura, senior songman and Elder

Perhaps the most defining feature of Tiwi song is the importance placed on the creative innovation of the individual singer/composer. Tiwi songs are fundamentally new, unique and occasion specific, and yet sit within a continuum of an oral artistic tradition. Performed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1743328753
• ISBN13: 9781743328750
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"