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Research paper thumbnail of Walking Contemporary Indigenous Songlines as Public Pedagogies of Country

Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019

The singing and dancing of Darug peoples once echoed throughout the Hawkesbury Nepean riverlands ... more The singing and dancing of Darug peoples once echoed throughout the Hawkesbury Nepean riverlands in ceremony. A long and challenging walk through bushland along the Nepean River, from Emu Green to Yarramundi on the Hawkesbury River, invites the walker to meditate on the presences and absences of these river places. Yarramundi is an important site for Darug people today, as it holds the history and cultural memories of singing the rivers in song and ceremony. Walking contemporary Indigenous songlines asks how we can come to know the river through walking the contemporary songlines of Darug songwriters and artists that sing the country of the riverlands today, and what is produced when this is enacted as public pedagogy. The paper explores a process of walking the Nepean River Trail, from my home at Emu Green to the Shaws Creek and Yellomundee Aboriginal cultural trails. The walk is reproduced as public pedagogy with collaborators Leanne and Jacinta Tobin, who have deep family connect...

Research paper thumbnail of Songlines

Riverlands of the Anthropocene, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Songlines

Research paper thumbnail of Walking Contemporary Indigenous Songlines as Public Pedagogies of Country

Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019

The singing and dancing of Darug peoples once echoed throughout the Hawkesbury Nepean riverlands ... more The singing and dancing of Darug peoples once echoed throughout the Hawkesbury Nepean riverlands in ceremony. A long and challenging walk through bushland along the Nepean River, from Emu Green to Yarramundi on the Hawkesbury River, invites the walker to meditate on the presences and absences of these river places. Yarramundi is an important site for Darug people today, as it holds the history and cultural memories of singing the rivers in song and ceremony. Walking contemporary Indigenous songlines asks how we can come to know the river through walking the contemporary songlines of Darug songwriters and artists that sing the country of the riverlands today, and what is produced when this is enacted as public pedagogy. The paper explores a process of walking the Nepean River Trail, from my home at Emu Green to the Shaws Creek and Yellomundee Aboriginal cultural trails. The walk is reproduced as public pedagogy with collaborators Leanne and Jacinta Tobin, who have deep family connect...

Research paper thumbnail of Songlines

Riverlands of the Anthropocene, 2020

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