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  Yothu Yindi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for Child and Mother) is an Australian band with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members.
The Aboriginal members come from near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory's Arnhem Land.
The foundation is the producer of the annual Garma Festival celebrating Yolgnu culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yothu_Yindi   (179 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Homeland movement is an album by yothu yindi that was released in 1989 on the mushroom records label....
Tribal voice is an album by yothu yindi that was released in 1991 under the mushroom records label....
Freedom is an album by yothu yindi that was released in 1993 under the mushroom records label....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/yo/yothu_yindi.htm   (833 words)

  
 CMT.com : Yothu Yindi : Biography
Yothu Yindi is the most successful and internationally recognized of Australia's aboriginal bands.
The group's central figure Mandawuy Yunupingu and clansman Witiyana Marika were originally part of the rock band the Swamp Jockeys with non-aboriginals Cal Williams and Stuart Kellaway.
They gathered other aboriginal musicians and dancers to become Yothu Yindi, a troupe initially created to perform at cultural events both in Australia and internationally.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/yothu_yindi/bio.jhtml   (384 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi, Tribal Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yothu Yindi have been one of the biggest bands to enter the world music stage from Australia in the last decade.
Mixing traditional aborigine songs and sounds with rock, Yothu Yindi have been considered one of the architects of world fusion.
I would like to hear some more recent discs by Yothu Yindi to hear if they have earned the hype that they generate in certain circles; this disc doesn't earn much at all.
www.greenmanreview.com /yothuyindi.html   (516 words)

  
 When is a didjeridu not a yirdaki ?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yothu Yindi is a cogent example of the multiple, interwoven and vital roles of popular music in shaping individual, group and national identity.
Yothu Yindi is predicated on a notion of self-representation, even though, if necessary, this may take the form of technologically and industrially mediated syncretic music and westernized rhetorical, lyrical and/or audio-visual styles.
Yothu Yindi has remained focused on what constitutes success to them and what roles their music can play in the pursuit of extra-musical objectives.
www.didjeridu.com /wickedsticks/articles/agendas.htm   (3852 words)

  
 Teaching Heritage - Heritage and Land
Yothu Yindi is the name of a fundamental concept in our Yolngu life.
We took the name Yothu Yindi for the band because it is the name of an important relationship in our kinship system.
Yothu Yindi refers to the child and its mother.
www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au /1views/w1v_mandawuy.html   (3541 words)

  
 Mandawuy Yunupingu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mandawuy is the leader of the group Yothu Yindi, hailed by Billboard Magazine as the flagship of Australian music.
Their father, along with the father of Yothu Yindi Wittiana Marika, were both leaders of the Gumatj and Rirratjingu clans in Northeast Arnhem Land.
The name Yothu Yindi means "child and mother" in the Gumatj language, reflecting how the Yolngu relate to their environment.
www.didjeridu.com /wickedsticks/voices/mandaw.htm   (3173 words)

  
 Missionaries: Australia
Yothu Yindi, in collaboration with Paul Kelly and Midnight Oil, wrote the song, Treaty, as a call out against the Australian government.
After the Prime Minister's promise fell through, Yothu Yindi felt that they needed to raise awareness of what was going on, so Treaty was released to provoke public awareness and hopefully encourage the government to sign a treaty.
Yothu Yindi have not forgotten that they are Aboriginal and they cherish that fact.
www.globalministries.org /missionaries/eap2-l12.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Contemporary Aboriginal Music - Aboriginal Art Online
Yothu Yindi consists of both Yolngu and Balanda (non-Aboriginal) musicians and embodies a sharing of cultures.
The success of Yothu Yindi reflects not only a greater acceptance of Aboriginal culture by white audiences but also a reduced resistance to Aboriginal music by record companies and radio stations.
Yothu Yindi signified a new kind of Aboriginal and Australian identity with a much greater reliance on traditional Aboriginal culture and combining this with contemporary means of expression such as rock.
www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/conmusic.php   (727 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi Foundation recordings / RootsWorld Recording Review
They have been developed and distributed by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, which was established as a non-profit charity in 1991 as a way to support and disseminate Yolngu knowledge and culture.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, from Australia's Arnhem Land, is an elder and a ceremonial leader of the Gumatj clan.
He is also the founding chair of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, the first Chair of the Northern Land Council and the recipient of "Australian of the Year" in 1978.
www.rootsworld.com /reviews/yothuf.shtml   (879 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi - Offers track listings for the band's released albums, with links to songs that have been re-mixed.
Yothu Yindi and Mandawuy Yunupingu - Trinity College resource, providing links about the band and the achievements of its members.
Yothu Yindi Page - Written and researched by Tania Zappala as her winning entry for the Spirit of Australia Awards.
www.hotguitarist.com /bands/Y/yothu_yindi.htm   (262 words)

  
 Garma Festival -- Yothu Yindi Foundation
The Garma Festival is presented by the Yothu Yindi Foundation which was set up in 1990 by elders from five of the Yolngu clans: the Gumatj, Rirratjingu, Djapu, Galpu and Wanguri.
One of the key objectives of the Yothu Yindi Foundation is to support and further the maintenance, development, teaching and enterprise potential of Yolngu cultural life.
The Chairman of the Yothu Yindi Foundation is Galarrwuy Yunupingu.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/22051/20021213/www.garma.telstra.com/yy_foundation.htm   (257 words)

  
 YOTHU YINDI
Yothu Yindi recently performed in 'Ceremony' with the Australian Youth Orchestra conducted by Richard Mills.
Yothu Yindi release their sixth album titled 'Garma' in Australia on August 28, 2000.
The Yothu Yindi Foundation was established as a non-profit charitable organisation in 1990.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10031/20021005/www.yothuyindi.com/home.html   (362 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi Garma
After One Blood and it's remixes of Yothu Yindi's earlier hits like Treaty, Djapana and Dots on The Shells, the arrival of Garma is probably one of Yothu Yindi's most anticipated album releases in its 14 year history and where better to launch than at the annual Garma Festival.
Yothu Yindi also offers up what they call their welcoming song for the Olympic year (Calling Every Nation) a very catchy dance tune beginning with the trademark yidaki (didgeridoo) and Yolgnu chant.
Another element of the album, which is exciting especially for Yothu Yindi's only female band member, Jodie Cockatoo Creed, is her expanded involvement on this album as a writer and lead vocal.
www.abc.net.au /message/blackarts/review/s175416.htm   (581 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi Article Archives by KeepMedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After One Blood and it's remixes of Yothu Yindi's earlier hits like Treaty, Djapana and Dots on The Shells, the arrival of Garma is probably one of Yothu Yindi's most anticipated...
Yothu Yindi in Ceremony with The Australian Youth Orchestra
Yothu Yindi has won the award for best act at the inaugural Northern Territory Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin overnight.
www.topix.net /who/yothu-yindi/keepmedia   (278 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yothu Yindi is a band which combines traditional Australian Aboriginal music with modern western instrumentation.
The indigenous members of Yothu Yindi are among the traditional owners of North East Arnhem Land, a region of Australia's Northern Territory in which Yolngu (Aboriginal) people have lived in relative isolation for thousands of years.
Today Yothu Yindi also seeks to unite Australians and all peoples of the world in peace.
www.global-trance.co.uk /Yothu_Yindi.html   (270 words)

  
 Yothu yindi - Pandora Archive : Yothu Yindi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yothu Yindi are a band from the Northern Territory headed by singer/songwriter Mandawuy Yunupingu.
Yothu Yindi have always been recognised as a unique act.
Yothu Yindi, the first major Aboriginal Australian band, attracts fans from many parts of the world.
xrtr.com /xrtr/yothu-yindi.htm   (243 words)

  
 Yomunu Yunupingu Profile | iDIDJ Australia
A dynamite virtuoso, Yomunu has been a yidaki player for the Yothu Yindi band and has toured and recorded with them for about a quarter of his life.
Malati was also a dancer with the Yothu Yindi band for many years.
He encourages young pre-teen yidaki players to aspire to new heights of excellence and is never short on advice for those wishing to enter the stratospheric realms of the yidaki.
www.ididj.com.au /education/profiles/yomunu.html   (346 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi - the band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Yolngu members of Yothu Yindi live in the tribal homelands of north-east Arnhem Land 600 kilometres east of the Northern Territory capital of Darwin.
Yirrkala is a community of 800 Yolngu people that serves as a resource centre for a further 800 people who live in small family-orientated out-stations or bush camps in the region.
Consequently, the birth of the Aboriginal land rights movement can be directly traced to the actions of the fathers of two of Yothu Yindi's founding members, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Witiyana Marika.
www.yothuyindi.com /thebandinfo2.html   (398 words)

  
 There was a Wicked Man who blew a Wicked Stick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yothu Yindi is a prime example of a band with a message embedded in their music that includes human rights, social and environmental justice and our shared destiny.
The festival was held in a clearing of a stringy bark forest on an escarpment overlooking the Gulf of Carpentieria in Arnhem Land.
On behalf of the Yothu Yindi Foundation I would like to extend an invitation to all the didjeridu enthusiasts in the cyber-world to attend the Yidaki Master Class at the Garma Festival 2000 to be held in Arnhem Land later this year.
www.rdrop.com /users/mulara/issues/ao66.html   (2538 words)

  
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But their place on this bill was quite fitting since the night also had a First Nations theme.
Enter: three dancers, white-painted and dressed in loincloths, onto a darkened stage accompanied by the curious sound of the didgeridoo (a 6-feet long wooden tube).
Yothu Yindi has taken this art form to its perfection, creating stunning songs with the steady, driving rhythm of good rock n'roll enhanced by the didgeridoo and a variety of aboriginal percussion instruments, overlaid by melodious and imaginative harmonies.
www.peak.sfu.ca /gopher/94-2/issue4/yothu1.ans   (708 words)

  
 Didgeridoo Distribution | iDIDJ Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Here, the didjeridu continues to serves as a rhythmic accompaniment to voice and paired percussive sticks (sometimes known as clapsticks) in the religious and ceremonial life of the Aboriginal people.
In the very north-east of Arnhem Land, at a place called the Gove Peninsula, live the Aboriginal members of Australia's celebrated Yothu Yindi band.
Yothu Yindi has played a major role in promoting the didjeridu throughout the world through its use of the yidaki in concerts as well as in studio recordings and CDs released by the band.
www.ididj.com.au /theDidjeridu/distribution.html   (294 words)

  
 Music Directory: Yothu Yindi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mandawuy Yunupingu - Interview with the lead singer of the band, Yothu Yindi.
Message Stick: Yothu Yindi Garma - Album review, including interviews [in Real Audio format] with lead singer, Mandaway Yunupingu, about the Garma philosophy of education, and Galarrwuy Yunupingu, about Land Rights in North East Arnhem Land.
Coloured Stone, Warumpi Band and Yothu Yindi will all perform at the upcoming Dreaming Festival at Woodford, over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend (9–12 June).
www.jazar-music.com /directory/Bands_and_Artists/Y/Yothu_Yindi   (559 words)

  
 Yothu Yindi - the band
Like the name of my band, the system of relationships which Yolngu people practice is known as Yothu Yindi.
As I tour the country - and indeed the world - with Yothu Yindi, I recognise that people in the cities want to explore our Yolngu culture.
Yothu Yindi and the Northern Land Council are presently trying to put together a national youth tour featuring indigenous acts as part of our on-going commitment to the reconciliation process.
www.yothuyindi.com /thebandinfo4.html   (1635 words)

  
 Garma Festival
Yolngu leaders of Arnhem Land are pleased that guests invited to the Garma Festival organized by the Yothu Yindi Foundation have started the journey of learning Yolngu culture and traditions.
Yet Yolngu people are concerned that the emergence of a global culture and the commercialisation of the Yi daki has the potential to separate the Yi daki from its origins in the sacred stories which are at the heart of the songs.
The Yolngu concept of Yothu Yindi, which recognises duality and fosters balance where there is difference, is a guiding Yolngu philosophy that applies to this new relationship.
www.garma.telstra.com /yidaki/y_statement.htm   (512 words)

  
 RaVeN’s Ranting Blog » Yothu Yindi
Even in their earliest stages, Yothu Yindi were recognised as a unique act.
In December 1992, Yothu Yindi represented Australia at the launch of the
Yothu Yindi capped off a busy year in 2000 with performances at the closing
www.voice-of-the-raven.com /2006/03/10/yothu-yindi   (2263 words)

  
 Lesson 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Look up the exciting internet sites that Yothu Yindi has on the net to learn more about them.
Yothu Yindi consists of both Yolngu (Aboriginal Australian) and Balanda (non-Aboriginal) musicians and embodies a sharing of cultures, the first of which dates back 60,000 years.
The result is a band that's been hailed "as the most beautiful blend of indigenous and modern music to emerge from the world's music scene" Mandawuy Yunupingu: Lead singer and songwriter.
projects.edtech.sandi.net /dailard/oceanarts/lesson5.html   (142 words)

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