The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171874 Message #4158075
Posted By: Helen
18-Nov-22 - 08:58 PM
Thread Name: Wanji-wanji indigenous Australian song
Subject: RE: Wanji-wanji indigenous Australian song
Thanks Sandra,
I was going to post the link but I wanted to find a way to hear the song too. I just tried your link to the podcast but it gives an error message saying that the audio file is unavailable.
One of the key things I found out from the article is the folk process at work for at least 100 years across the western half of Australia without communication technology as we know it, and that the origin and even the meaning of the song are mostly lost in the past.
Also, when I Googled Wanji-wanji, one of the topics which came up is the place at Lake Macquarie called Wangi Wangi (pronounced Wo'ndgy Wo'ndgy)- about halfway(?) between where I live and you live. It would be interesting if there was a link there too, way over here on the east coast of Oz.