In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African
migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During …

Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of
postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple Languages …

This article details the material colour practices of A n angu (Pitjantjatjara and
Yankunytjatjara people) living in the east of the Western Desert, to show how coloured …

An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the
obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from …

Singing is an activity that happens in every society. But the ways that texts and music align
with each other and the ways meanings are conveyed, and how the activity fits into larger …

In western Arnhem Land, a diverse song tradition—referred to as kun-borrk in Bininj Gunwok
language and manyardi in Mawng language—continues to be passed down over many …

During the 1970s, the Marri Ngarr composer Pius Luckan anti bis brother Clement
Tcbinhurur createda set ofliturgical songs ('churcb lirrga') basedonthedidjeridu …

As of 2011, an estimated 669,900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accounted for
3 per cent of Australia's total population (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015). Of that …

Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-
formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical …

In an Aboriginal children's story from Central Australia, small creatures such as dragon
lizards and ground-dwelling insect larvae known as ant lions convey rich symbolic …