Singing the Coast

Name: Singing the Coast
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780855757113
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By Margaret Somerville and Tony Perkins

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Most Australians live along the narrow coastal strip surrounding the island continent. For Aboriginal people, places come to life when they are sung, with songs serving as a vital way to learn about and care for these locations. Singing the Coast explores the coastal group of the Gumbaynggirr people from mid-north coast New South Wales, sharing their experience in maintaining the stories and songs of their country amidst rapid urban development.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Indigenous Australian culture, oral traditions, and environmental education, as well as those keen to understand the connection between land, song, and community.

Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung. These songs can be for all of us, where Aboriginal stories are overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. One coastal group's experience in maintaining the stories and songs of their country.

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Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people, a place comes into being each time it is sung, and it is through this process that places are learned about and cared for. These songs can be for all of us, in the places where Aboriginal stories are rapidly overwritten with the grids of roads and towns.

Together, Tony Perkins and Margaret Somerville explore one coastal group's experience in maintaining the stories and songs of their country: Perkins' Gumbaynggirr homeland in mid-north coast New South Wales. These stories and songs are unique in their particularities, yet universal in their sense of knowledge, understanding, and openness to sharing.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780855757113

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2010

Country: Australia

Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press

Illustration: b/w photos

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 516g

Pages: 240

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Education & Reference Margaret Somerville Non-Fiction Tony Perkins

About the Author

Margaret Somerville has been working with Aboriginal communities in eastern Australia for more than 20 years. She is the author of The Sun Dancin' People and Place in Coonabarabran and Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur. Tony Perkins is the grandson of Aboriginal Elder and speaker of three tribal languages Clarrie Skinner. He reignited the Yarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation in order to promote the Aboriginal culture and tradition of the Garby Elders.