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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Old Songs Are Always New : Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands
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'Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.

'In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim these archived songs and song texts. The Old Songs are Always New explores their return home to the Tiwi Islands and reveals that the fundamentally contemporary, topical and current nature of the Tiwi song culture has resulted in the preservation of a rich social, cultural and historical oral record.

'Campbell describes the melody, rhythm, vocal technique, language, performance context and function of the twelve Tiwi song types, and gives an overview of the language and poetic devices used in song composition.'(Publication summary)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Sydney University Press , 2023 .
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      •  Published 1 February 2023

      ISBN: 9781743328750

Works about this Work

Ripples of Impact : Two New Books on the Tiwi Islands John Bradley , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 35-36)

— Review of Tiwi Story : Turning History Downside Up 2023 anthology essay ; The Old Songs Are Always New : Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands Genevieve Campbell , 2023 multi chapter work criticism lyric/song

'Just to north of Darwin is the country of the Tiwi people, spread over Bathurst and Melville Islands. These two new books give voice to Tiwi oral traditions and to the power and resonance within that tradition of orality that encompasses song, narrative, and the ways in which they sustain family and relationships to ancestors and to kin.' (Introduction)

Ripples of Impact : Two New Books on the Tiwi Islands John Bradley , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 35-36)

— Review of Tiwi Story : Turning History Downside Up 2023 anthology essay ; The Old Songs Are Always New : Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands Genevieve Campbell , 2023 multi chapter work criticism lyric/song

'Just to north of Darwin is the country of the Tiwi people, spread over Bathurst and Melville Islands. These two new books give voice to Tiwi oral traditions and to the power and resonance within that tradition of orality that encompasses song, narrative, and the ways in which they sustain family and relationships to ancestors and to kin.' (Introduction)

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Subjects:
  • Tiwi Islands, Top End, Northern Territory,
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