Singing the Coast

Author(s): Tony Perkins

Australian

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.


Product Information

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.

Prologue - In the Beginning; Singing Differently; Crying-Songs to Remember; Making Home in No Mans Land; Eating Place; Spirits in Places; A Language of Landscape; Connecting the Dots; Index.

General Fields

  • : 9780855757113
  • : Aboriginal Studies Press
  • : Aboriginal Studies Press
  • : 0.522
  • : 01 May 2010
  • : 230mm X 152mm X 20mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tony Perkins
  • : Paperback
  • : 1005
  • : 398.20899915
  • : 240
  • : b/w photos