website – dharugdalang.com499 Green describes his process of reclamation of the Sydney language in his essay Reclamation process of Dharug in Sydney500 .

Ngaya Wagul
Score: Ngaya Wagul Appendix 8 p.489
Audio Recording 1: Ngaya Wagul 1 std.rec.wav (Mt Druitt Children’s choir)
Audio Recording 2: Ngaya Wagul 2 std.rec.wav (Richard Green)
Audio visual table 6.14

Richard Green has assisted the Mt Druitt children’s choir with their pronunciations of the Dharug language, Dharug dalang, (tongue).The choir performs many songs in the Sydney language. I collaborated with the Mt Druitt choir for large performance piece Land Of Dreams by Greg Stigter . Two recordings are included of Nygaya Wagul .The OUR MUSIC performance with the childrens choir, and Richard Green in the studio with myself playing the 102 key Suart & Sons piano.

OUR MUSIC 2014
Sydney Conservatorium of Music

499 http://www.dharug.dalang.com.au/filedownload/FrontPage.html
500John Hobson, Re-awakening Languages Theory and Practice in revitalizationof Australia’s Indigenous languages. (Sydney: Sydney University Press 2010).
501 © Rusty Peters, courtesy of Warmun Art centre WA

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