THE OLD SONGS ARE ALWAYS NEW - SINGING TRADITIONS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS HIT326 they say school isn’t for

they say school isn’t for everyone

reached after more than four decades of exploring north Australia and researching the history of white settlement and the culture clash with the original people

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THE OLD SONGS ARE ALWAYS NEW - SINGING TRADITIONS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS HIT326 they say school isn’t forApproximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra. In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim these archived songs and song texts. The Old Songs are Always New explores their return home to the Tiwi Islands and reveals that the fundamentally