Australian Aboriginal Song Language: So Many Questions, So Little to Work With

Abstract

Recent years have seen a significant upturn in research activity into Indigenous song language. We now have teams of researchers including anthropologists, linguists and musicologists engaged in longer-term song language projects. This paper seeks to outline that activity and suggest lines of inquiry for future research. To that end, I pose a series of questions to raise what are regarded as some of the more important issues to be addressed now and in the future.