Yawulyu Mardukuja-patu-kurlangu: Relational Dynamics of Warlpiri Women’s Song Performance

IF 1 Q3 SOCIOLOGY
Georgia Curran, Enid Nangala Gallagher
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ABSTRACT Warlpiri women, as with other groups across Indigenous Australia, sing to sustain and nurture their relationships with Country and jukurrpa (dreamings). For the custodians of these singing traditions, spiritual agency and power are consigned to songs and their singers, and performances are centred around nurturing relational links between people with Country and to other participants. Within contemporary contexts, in which Warlpiri singers are finding fewer opportunities to perform and pass on songs, new performance spaces are being created to continue to carry forward the significant cultural work of maintaining social and spiritual order through song. In this article we consider a number of performance instances of Warlpiri women's yawulyu (ceremonial songs) and discuss the inter—group dynamics and negotiations which are central to these events. We explore the ways in which Warlpiri women are continuing the cultural work of maintaining the relational aspects central to yawulyu through these performances despite shifting purposes and performance contexts. We illustrate through examples from contemporary events, how the dynamics of the particular performance instances involving ceremonial songs, dances, and other activities, direct the ways in which participants assert and reshape their intimate links to Country and to broader social networks of others.
Yawulyu Mardukuja-patu-kurlangu: Warlpiri女性歌曲表演的关系动态
与澳大利亚其他土著群体一样,瓦尔皮里族妇女通过唱歌来维持和培养她们与国家和梦想的关系。对于这些歌唱传统的保管人来说,精神力量和力量被赋予歌曲及其歌手,表演的中心是培养人们与国家和其他参与者之间的关系联系。在当代背景下,Warlpiri歌手表演和传递歌曲的机会越来越少,新的表演空间正在被创造出来,以继续推进通过歌曲维持社会和精神秩序的重要文化工作。在本文中,我们考虑了Warlpiri妇女的yawulyu(仪式歌曲)的一些表演实例,并讨论了这些事件的核心群体之间的动态和谈判。我们探索了Warlpiri女性如何通过这些表演继续维持对yawulyu至关重要的关系方面的文化工作,尽管目的和表演背景发生了变化。我们通过当代事件的例子来说明,涉及仪式歌曲、舞蹈和其他活动的特定表演实例的动态如何指导参与者主张和重塑他们与国家以及他人更广泛的社会网络的亲密联系的方式。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Intercultural Studies showcases innovative scholarship about emerging cultural formations, intercultural negotiations and contemporary challenges to cultures and identities. It welcomes theoretically informed articles from diverse disciplines that contribute to the following discussions: -Reconceptualising notions of nationhood, citizenship and belonging; -Questioning theories of diaspora, transnationalism, hybridity and ‘border crossing’, and their contextualised applications; -Exploring the contemporary sociocultural formations of whiteness, ethnicity, racialization, postcolonialism and indigeneity -Examining how past and contemporary key scholars can inform current thinking on intercultural knowledge, multiculturalism, race and cultural identity. Journal of Intercultural Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal that particularly encourages contributions from scholars in cultural studies, sociology, migration studies, literary studies, gender studies, anthropology, cultural geography, urban studies, race and ethnic studies.
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