New chapter for ancient songbook (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Greetings,

For some reason this news article makes me very happy! ;-)

Phil

On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> New chapter for ancient songbook
>
> Andrew Bock
> August 30, 2011
> AUS
>
> Endangered Aboriginal languages have been reinvigorated with a
> collaborative music project, writes Andrew Bock.
>
> THE centrality of song in Aboriginal culture is often overlooked.
>
> In traditional Aboriginal culture, story is first enacted by song - it
> precedes both painting and dancing - and the custodians or ''song
> people'' are accordingly perplexed by the popularity of painting.
>
> Patrick McCloskey is the manager of a new indigenous recording project
> in Tennant Creek. ''The singers often say 'the painting and the
> patterns don't exist without us, they don't exist without the songs'.
> The song is the thing that binds it all together,'' he says.
>
> The Song Peoples Sessions is a visionary project that has brought two
> leading indigenous singer-songwriters home to the countries of their
> grandparents to compose music with traditional song people.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/new-chapter-for-ancient-songbook-20110829-1ji6a.html
>