reading revival 2

the first sequel. reading revival 2 reads ngarla songs by alexander brown & brian geytenbeek: a collection of 20C indigenous songs translated from ngarla into english. for previous revival incarnation hit link below.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

the opening song 'The Unbeatable Bloke' ['Wirtiyamarra'] by miriny-mirinymarra jinkiri (who died in the 1930s and also worked on de grey station) evinces a subtle feminism; it is typically unrhetorical: the unbeatable bloke is beaten by a woman at cards. the song is in two stanzas. in the first the narrator is watching the title figure i.e. Wirtiyamarra play cards; the second begins 'Parrkuya with her swag/ is going off down the riverbed.' swag in this instance meaning her roll of money (according to the notes).

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