Singing Bones

<p style='margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0 0 0); font-family: -apple-system BlinkMacSystemFont Segoe UI Helvetica Arial sans-serif Apple Color Emoji Segoe UI Emoji Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Manikay are the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land passed down over generations and containing vital cultural knowledge.</p><p style='color: rgb(0 0 0); font-family: -apple-system BlinkMacSystemFont Segoe UI Helvetica Arial sans-serif Apple Color Emoji Segoe UI Emoji Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><em>Singing Bones</em> foregrounds the voices of manikay singers from Ngukurr in southeastern Arnhem Land and charts their critically acclaimed collaboration with jazz musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra <em>Crossing Roper Bar</em>. It offers an overview of Wägilak manikay narratives and style including their social ceremonial and linguistic aspects and explores the <em>Crossing Roper Bar</em> project as an example of creative intercultural collaboration and a continuation of the manikay tradition.</p>