Episode 3: On Milpirri and digging up yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick

Music!Dance!Culture!

Music!Dance!Culture! Episode 3. On Milpirri and digging yams of knowledge with Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick

We learn about a Warlpiri traditional culture and hip-hop festival called Milpirri with its creative director Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and his father, Warlpiri elder, Jerry Jangala Patrick who performs Jardiwanpa.
Produced by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan with guest co-producers Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett, Wanta Steven Jampijinpa Patrick and Jerry Jangala Patrick. Theme music by Mahesh, produced by Arian Pearson. Sound design by Mahesh with sound samples from Alexis Weaver. Thanks to Jangala, Jampijinpa, the Lajamanu Community, Tracks Dance Company, Monkey Marc, Grace Marshall, PAW Media, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Anthropological Society, PARADISEC, Alexis Weaver , Samuel Curkpatrick, Bronwyn Griffiths, Jennifer Biddle, the Curran-Palmer Family and Jennifer White-Radhakrishnan.

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Music featured from Milpirri by Tracks Inc., Jampijinpa, Jangala and Lajamanu Community

• Discipline: https://vimeo.com/321366994?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9282219
• Justice - Restoring the Balance (Coming to get ya) : https://vimeo.com/321366955?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=9282219

Other music

• Emu Dreaming song by Monkey Marc and Elf Transporter with Wanta Jampijinpa Patrick, Jangala and Lajamanu community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK1s5kc7nk

Other links:

• Tracks Dance Company: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/landing/lajamanu-milpirri-home-page
• Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP190100552) Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony
• Monkey Marc: https://www.monkeymarc.org/
• Elf Tranzporter in conversation with Wanta Jampijinpa - Palka: http://on.soundcloud.com/ABAZt
• Warlpiri skin names https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/skins.html
• Yankirri – digging for knowledge: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/milpirri-dance/yankirri-emu-digging-knowledge-2007-2016
• Milpirri colour groups: https://www.tracksdance.com.au/colour-groups-0

Research publications on Milpirri

• Dowsett, Sudiipta Shamalii 2021. Sampling Ceremony: Hip-hop Workshops and Intergeneration Cultural Production in the Central Australian Desert. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 22(2-3): 184-202. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442213.2021.1914713?journalCode=rtap20
• Patrick, W. S. J., and J. L. Biddle. 2018. “Not Just Ceremony, Not Just Dance, Not Just Idea: Milpirri as Hyperrealism, a Key Word Discussion.” Visual Anthropology Review 34 (1): 27–35. http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12150