Post by tannis on Aug 14, 2009 2:27:22 GMT
Kate Bush - The Dreaming on German TV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy_H0z8Hjus
User Comment A: Sarcasm is a weapon like any other, and this song seems thick with it. The dance itself is not a real aboriginal dance, but a parody of one (it's actually closer to a Maori dance in its gestures). There's also a parody of old English sea-shanties, such as were sung in Captain Cook's time. There is deep sarcasm in that. And what could be more sarcastic than "coming in with the golden light in the morning"? If that means what I take it to mean, it's the most sarcastic song I've ever heard... I'm talking about sarcasm as an artistic weapon, involving techniques of mockery by imitation, exaggeration, irony, parody, etc. As such, The Dreaming is something of a masterpiece. I find new things in it at every hearing... Kate soaked up the traditional music idioms of the British Isles from an early age, so it isn't a stretch for me to identify that strain in her music... The coarse accent Kate puts on makes me think of the rough crew who first landed at Botany Bay with Captain Cook.
User Comment B: Sarcastic? Where did you get that idea? It's a serious song about the plight of the native people of Australia. Admittedly, the dance is her interpretation rather than being based on actual traditions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy_H0z8Hjus
KB: "I knew the beat from Sun Arise and Aborigine music, so we just ripped that off, used what was already there ethnically. Rolf just came in and did dijeridu."
ZigZag, "Dream Time in the Bush", 1982
gaffa.org/reaching/i82_zz.html
The Dreaming lifts the veil on Sun Arise, using Alien (1979) pressure suits and alien sounds to emphasise the alien exploitation of indigenous peoples. Rolf's song (written by alien white man) 'exploits' Aboriginal culture and values, reflecting a cultural denial at a time when Australia was pursuing the politics of the Stolen Generations (c.1869-1969). Indeed, Rolf's original recording of Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport included the lyrics: "Let me abos go loose, Lew/ Let me abos go loose/ They're of no further use, Lew/ So let me abos go loose". The verse appears to refer to Aboriginal servitude and captivity in a whimsically approving manner. In addition, the word "abo" was beginning to be seen as a term of abuse at the time. The offending verse did not feature in later versions of the song, and in 2006 Harris expressed his regret about that original lyric. However, Kate's song (written by alien white woman) rips off Rolf and cleverly addresses head-on the on-going exploitation of Aboriginal land and the degradation of their culture.
Erase the race that claim the place
And say we dig for ore...
Mining in Australia is a significant primary industry and encouraged immigration to Australia. Many different ores and minerals are mined throughout the country, and Australia has the world's largest uranium reserves - 24 percent of the planet's known reserves. The Victorian Gold Rush, had a major lasting impact on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole. Australia's population changed dramatically as a result of the gold rushes: in 1851 the population was 437,655 and a decade later it was 1,151,947.
Uranium mines have cost the Aborigines dearly, beginning with the postwar mine at Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory, which resulted in the contamination of about 100 square kilometres of the Finniss River flood plain. In the seventies the miners again turned their attention to Aboriginal land, after finding huge deposits in Arnhem Land. This was a beautiful region populated mostly by blacks, and the local people feared that mining could ruin it and them.
Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia: The Aborigines do not want this mining. The Aboriginal Chairman of the Northern Aboriginal Land Council, Galarrwuy Yunpingu, stated at a Canberra Press Conference, 10th November 1977: "Now people are trying to force us to accept that mining, uranium mining, will go ahead. But we insist that we don't want uranium mining."
The Chairman of Oenpelli Council, Silas Maralngurra, spokesman for the first Aboriginal community to be affected by the proposed mining, stated: "Balanda (white man) push, push, push, — soon pubs everywhere and they will kill the race — look at the Larrakia. Darwin is their country, and they are living on the rubbish tip . . . This place will look real ugly and bad, just like Rum Jungle" (the former uranium mine nearer to Darwin).
An Aboriginal woman from the community spoke out for her land before the BBC Panorama crew in 1977. She said: "We don't want money — money is not important to us. We are in our ceremonial ground and our culture is more important than money. Money is for the white man. He made it up, and he gave it to us. We don’t know how to handle money… We know how to use our own culture….. we know how to use our ceremonial grounds, which are handed down to our ancestors.' An Aboriginal man added: ‘White people are playing tricks on. We can understand their tricks. They just want to get away with our inheritance, our country. We’ve got to hold it hard. We don’t let our land go. If we do, we just lose it just like people from the southern states….. a hundred years ago."
www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/wscfap/arms1974/PRAXIS/1980/1/a.htm
Or dangle devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull of the Bush...
Some commentators such as Sir Ronald Wilson have alleged that the Stolen Generations was nothing less than a case of attempted genocide, because it was widely believed at the time that the policy would cause Aborigines to die out.
Coming in with the golden light
In the morning.
Coming in with the golden light
With no warning.
Coming in with the golden light
We bring in the rigging.
Dig, dig, dig, dig away...
Sun Arise (1960) used four double basses to imitate the sound of the digeridoo. The Dreaming (1982) responds with fake synthetic sheep (Percy Edwards). Although The Dreaming choreography appears to mimic Aboriginal tribal dance, its content is as alien as the lyric, sheep and dance troupe. The dancing has no tribal meaning. Rather, the tribal form has been filled with imported slo-mo 1960s pop moves, blended with mining, digging and seafaring mime. There's even a satirical reference to the nuclear weapons industry.
"See the light."
Aboriginal struggles in the 1970s and 1980s
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/aborigines.htm
Doonooch Dance Company - Aboriginal Dancers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc75dPa1AYU&feature=channel
Aboriginal Dance 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8_tBwBE_A
Aboriginal Dances 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rspN1MUcIOk&feature=related
Australian Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4s8CbBOuuA&feature=related
Didgeridoo - Jeremy Donovan, Aboriginal Artist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc&feature=fvw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy_H0z8Hjus
User Comment A: Sarcasm is a weapon like any other, and this song seems thick with it. The dance itself is not a real aboriginal dance, but a parody of one (it's actually closer to a Maori dance in its gestures). There's also a parody of old English sea-shanties, such as were sung in Captain Cook's time. There is deep sarcasm in that. And what could be more sarcastic than "coming in with the golden light in the morning"? If that means what I take it to mean, it's the most sarcastic song I've ever heard... I'm talking about sarcasm as an artistic weapon, involving techniques of mockery by imitation, exaggeration, irony, parody, etc. As such, The Dreaming is something of a masterpiece. I find new things in it at every hearing... Kate soaked up the traditional music idioms of the British Isles from an early age, so it isn't a stretch for me to identify that strain in her music... The coarse accent Kate puts on makes me think of the rough crew who first landed at Botany Bay with Captain Cook.
User Comment B: Sarcastic? Where did you get that idea? It's a serious song about the plight of the native people of Australia. Admittedly, the dance is her interpretation rather than being based on actual traditions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy_H0z8Hjus
KB: "I knew the beat from Sun Arise and Aborigine music, so we just ripped that off, used what was already there ethnically. Rolf just came in and did dijeridu."
ZigZag, "Dream Time in the Bush", 1982
gaffa.org/reaching/i82_zz.html
The Dreaming lifts the veil on Sun Arise, using Alien (1979) pressure suits and alien sounds to emphasise the alien exploitation of indigenous peoples. Rolf's song (written by alien white man) 'exploits' Aboriginal culture and values, reflecting a cultural denial at a time when Australia was pursuing the politics of the Stolen Generations (c.1869-1969). Indeed, Rolf's original recording of Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport included the lyrics: "Let me abos go loose, Lew/ Let me abos go loose/ They're of no further use, Lew/ So let me abos go loose". The verse appears to refer to Aboriginal servitude and captivity in a whimsically approving manner. In addition, the word "abo" was beginning to be seen as a term of abuse at the time. The offending verse did not feature in later versions of the song, and in 2006 Harris expressed his regret about that original lyric. However, Kate's song (written by alien white woman) rips off Rolf and cleverly addresses head-on the on-going exploitation of Aboriginal land and the degradation of their culture.
Erase the race that claim the place
And say we dig for ore...
Mining in Australia is a significant primary industry and encouraged immigration to Australia. Many different ores and minerals are mined throughout the country, and Australia has the world's largest uranium reserves - 24 percent of the planet's known reserves. The Victorian Gold Rush, had a major lasting impact on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole. Australia's population changed dramatically as a result of the gold rushes: in 1851 the population was 437,655 and a decade later it was 1,151,947.
Uranium mines have cost the Aborigines dearly, beginning with the postwar mine at Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory, which resulted in the contamination of about 100 square kilometres of the Finniss River flood plain. In the seventies the miners again turned their attention to Aboriginal land, after finding huge deposits in Arnhem Land. This was a beautiful region populated mostly by blacks, and the local people feared that mining could ruin it and them.
Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia: The Aborigines do not want this mining. The Aboriginal Chairman of the Northern Aboriginal Land Council, Galarrwuy Yunpingu, stated at a Canberra Press Conference, 10th November 1977: "Now people are trying to force us to accept that mining, uranium mining, will go ahead. But we insist that we don't want uranium mining."
The Chairman of Oenpelli Council, Silas Maralngurra, spokesman for the first Aboriginal community to be affected by the proposed mining, stated: "Balanda (white man) push, push, push, — soon pubs everywhere and they will kill the race — look at the Larrakia. Darwin is their country, and they are living on the rubbish tip . . . This place will look real ugly and bad, just like Rum Jungle" (the former uranium mine nearer to Darwin).
An Aboriginal woman from the community spoke out for her land before the BBC Panorama crew in 1977. She said: "We don't want money — money is not important to us. We are in our ceremonial ground and our culture is more important than money. Money is for the white man. He made it up, and he gave it to us. We don’t know how to handle money… We know how to use our own culture….. we know how to use our ceremonial grounds, which are handed down to our ancestors.' An Aboriginal man added: ‘White people are playing tricks on. We can understand their tricks. They just want to get away with our inheritance, our country. We’ve got to hold it hard. We don’t let our land go. If we do, we just lose it just like people from the southern states….. a hundred years ago."
www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/wscfap/arms1974/PRAXIS/1980/1/a.htm
Or dangle devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull of the Bush...
Some commentators such as Sir Ronald Wilson have alleged that the Stolen Generations was nothing less than a case of attempted genocide, because it was widely believed at the time that the policy would cause Aborigines to die out.
Coming in with the golden light
In the morning.
Coming in with the golden light
With no warning.
Coming in with the golden light
We bring in the rigging.
Dig, dig, dig, dig away...
Sun Arise (1960) used four double basses to imitate the sound of the digeridoo. The Dreaming (1982) responds with fake synthetic sheep (Percy Edwards). Although The Dreaming choreography appears to mimic Aboriginal tribal dance, its content is as alien as the lyric, sheep and dance troupe. The dancing has no tribal meaning. Rather, the tribal form has been filled with imported slo-mo 1960s pop moves, blended with mining, digging and seafaring mime. There's even a satirical reference to the nuclear weapons industry.
"See the light."
Aboriginal struggles in the 1970s and 1980s
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/aborigines.htm
Doonooch Dance Company - Aboriginal Dancers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc75dPa1AYU&feature=channel
Aboriginal Dance 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8_tBwBE_A
Aboriginal Dances 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rspN1MUcIOk&feature=related
Australian Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4s8CbBOuuA&feature=related
Didgeridoo - Jeremy Donovan, Aboriginal Artist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc&feature=fvw