Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
10-7-2019 12:30 PM
Description
In 2007 the Junba Project was conceived of by elder Ngarinyin practitioners of the Junba dance-song genre in the northcentral Kimberley in conversation with ethnomusicologist Sally Treloyn, in response to a decline in youth participation and concerns for youth social and emotional wellbeing. Elder song man and composer Scotty Nyalgodi Martin declaimed “Without culture we will all be lost”, referring not just to members of his own community but to all Australians and indeed humanity in general. Since that time the Junba Project, in partnership with elder and youth leaders, the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre, and various other community organisations, has sought to identify and develop community-led approaches to sustainability and musico-cultural resilience. Guided by a participatory research model, the project has emphasised an approach to collaboration marked by participation across generations of practitioners, and reiteration and collaborative reflection, with an aim to identify strategies to sustain endangered Junba dance-song practices in changing twentieth and twenty-first century environments.
Recommended Citation
Treloyn, Sally; Divilli, Johnny; and Charles, Rona, "Making Junba good in the Kimberley: Applied (ethnomusicological) research and its discontents" (2019). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 6.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2019/schedule/6
Making Junba good in the Kimberley: Applied (ethnomusicological) research and its discontents
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
In 2007 the Junba Project was conceived of by elder Ngarinyin practitioners of the Junba dance-song genre in the northcentral Kimberley in conversation with ethnomusicologist Sally Treloyn, in response to a decline in youth participation and concerns for youth social and emotional wellbeing. Elder song man and composer Scotty Nyalgodi Martin declaimed “Without culture we will all be lost”, referring not just to members of his own community but to all Australians and indeed humanity in general. Since that time the Junba Project, in partnership with elder and youth leaders, the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre, and various other community organisations, has sought to identify and develop community-led approaches to sustainability and musico-cultural resilience. Guided by a participatory research model, the project has emphasised an approach to collaboration marked by participation across generations of practitioners, and reiteration and collaborative reflection, with an aim to identify strategies to sustain endangered Junba dance-song practices in changing twentieth and twenty-first century environments.
