What's in a Dedication? On Being a Warlpiri DJ

dc.contributor.authorHinkson, Melinda
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:05:19Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T23:05:19Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T07:59:36Z
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on the operation of the Pintupi Anmatyerre Warlpiri radio network, established by the Warlpiri Media Association in the north-west of Central Australia in late 2001. It traces the history out of which the network emerged and considers the distinctive approach taken to broadcasting by a group of young Warlpiri women. In exploring the on-air invocation of particular forms of social relations, I argue that radio has come to play an important role in facilitating expressions of Warlpiri sociality across an expanding social field. At once a driver of social transformation and the transcendence of localism, as well as the glue that might bind people to each other in a changing world, the activity occurring around the Warlpiri Media Association provides a window onto the multiple challenges and choices faced by Warlpiri people in the present. This article is most particularly interested in how Warlpiri youth are negotiating these challenges and choices. The final section considers whether this new radio network might be understood in terms of the emergence of a new public sphere.
dc.identifier.issn1035-8811
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/85466
dc.publisherAustralian Anthropological Society Inc
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Anthropology, The
dc.titleWhat's in a Dedication? On Being a Warlpiri DJ
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage162
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage143
local.contributor.affiliationHinkson, Melinda, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4034866@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidHinkson, Melinda, u4034866
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.absfor169902 - Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub13886
local.identifier.citationvolume15
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-43249185128
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByMigrated
local.type.statusPublished Version

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