Myfany Turpin

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Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Ethnobiology, University of Sydney

Jessica Gow/TT/EPA

May 8, 2024

Myfany Turpin, University of Sydney; Jodie Kell, University of Sydney; Patricia Nja-wakadj Gibson, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sasha Wilmoth, The University of Melbourne

While they may have fallen short of Eurovision glory, Electric Fields still blazed a trail for First Nations representation.

Gurindji singers Thomas Monkey Yikapayi, Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpa and Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal sing ‘Wanji-wanji’. Brenda L Croft

March 20, 2019

Myfany Turpin, University of Sydney; Brenda L Croft, Australian National University; Clint Bracknell, Edith Cowan University, and Felicity Meakins, The University of Queensland

Wanji-wanji’s lyrics have remained unchanged over thousands of kilometres and the past 150 years.