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Spirit of the Winter Tree - Tiddas (1992)
Composer Lyricist: Amy Saunders
Composer Lyricist: Lou Bennett
Composer Lyricist: Sally Dastey -
Lou Bennett describes being a 'conduit for song' in lead up to Adelaide Festival show nyilamum song cycles
'My [PhD] research was called Sovereign Language Rematriation. I wanted a title to emulate everything that I've been up to in the last 36 years. The artistry informs the education and vice versa — it's all entwined. It's very hard to silo things out and separate things.
They say there's about 7,000 languages in in the world. I believe there's so many more languages. Alone here in Australia, there's over 500 tribes, so there's at least 500 languages in Australia alone.
But instead of repatriation, I see it as a matrilineal thing, a woman thing to do or a feminine thing to do. It doesn't mean that men can't rematriate — rematriation has a sense, a deeper sense, and an understanding [of] the intangible, the spirit that evolves around language … Language has a spirit and has a life in itself and we treat it as family.
It's important that our languages here in Australia have the opportunity to sing again, to tell their story.'