List of tables

Table 0.1 Warlpiri skin names and their groupings into patricouples (represented by cells in the table) and patrimoieties (represented by columns).
Table 1.1 Features of Warlpiri song genres and ceremonies based on contemporary attitudes (which may shift over time).
Table 1.2 Assessment of the vitality of Warlpiri song genres against the 12 factors of Grant’s “Music Vitality and Endangerment Framework” (2014).
Table 3.1 The songs sung on the final day of the ceremony with exegeses provided by a senior man.
Table 5.1 Comparison of features of the six recorded performance instances.
Table 6.1 Four performances of Ngurlu yawulyu recorded at Alekarenge by Linda Barwick and David Nash in 1996 and 1997.
Table 6.2 Distribution of song items and verses from Jipiranpa and Pawurrinji across the corpus.
Table 6.3 Standard and non-standard forms of five rhythmic text features and their distribution across the corpus of 48 rhythmic texts.
Table 6.4 Distribution of standard text-rhythm features according to thematic groups.
Table 7.1 The 1981/1982 recordings by Megan Morais.
Table 7.2 The 2016–2019 recordings in which Warnajarra was performed or translated.