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'Ysola Best dedicated much of her life to researching and documenting her Indigenous heritage and having recognised the role that her family played in the development of the Gold Coast, southeastern Queensland. Her ancestors and traditional custodians of the Gold Coast were the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh speakers in an area which included Logan, Albert, Nerang and Coomera Rivers and Tallebudgerra Creek. Ysola spent twenty years researching her Kombumerri culture so that it could be passed on to future generations.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies Studies in Aboriginal Song : A Special Issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2007 Z1475731 2007 periodical issue (2 issues)

    This special issue focuses on studies in Aboriginal song, resulting from 'research projects that focus on endangered language and music and involved either collaborative work between linguists and musicologists, or work by scholars with training in both disciplines' (1).

    2007
    pg. 200-201
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