1. Melody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities
2. There has been an interesting shift in the marketing of the didjeridu to accommodate the increasing number of non-Aboriginal players from around the world seeking “authentic” instruments. For many years the few didjeridus available through Aboriginal art centres in Arnhem Land were sold as art objects. Today, however, there is a demand for didjeridus as musical instruments. They are still elaborately decorated, but they are also marketed as instruments tuned to a particular key.
3. In addition to the religious property (songs, dances, artistic designs, and so on) of their own patrifilial group, Yolngu people also have rights in and responsibilities toward the religious property of the patrifilial groups of their mothers (nga nd ipulu) and their mother's mothers (märipulu). These rights and responsibilities find their expression in both ritual and non-ritual contexts.
4. Song textual glosses for this and other place names were provided as “Darwin”, the capital city of the Northern Territory, but subsequent discussion revealed that the terms could refer to any city and may have been used originally in reference to Macassar.