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Article: Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land.(Sound recording review)
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land
David Minyimak and others (composers/ performers), Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Joy Williams, Sabine Hoeng (field recording/ editing/transcriptions/notes) 2005
Batchelor Press, CD+48pp booklet, ISBN 1 74131 050 4
This publication consists of an audio CD of 32 songs of the Aboriginal genre Jurtbirrk and a 48-page accompanying booklet. Jurtbirrk are Indigenous to the Iwaidja people of the Coburg Peninsula in the northwestern Arnhem Land, who now mostly live on nearby Croker Island. The genre is described in the accompanying booklet as 'love songs' since the lyrics are about the intimate affairs of ...