iDIDJ Australia Didgeridoo Cultural Hub

I am very troubled that this page does not seem to include the APPROPRIATE circumstances in which the didjeridoo may be used. I am concerned that this is another VIOLATION of Indigenous culture, firstly by white Australians who know better, secondly by gullible and naive internationals who may not.
NOTE:
1 The didjeridoo is not to be played by women
2 the didjeridoo should not be ornamented by sacred images
3 Copyright must be paid to all Copyright owners.
[ I am a white feminist woman living on land owned by the Noongar peoples of South-Western Australia ].

this woman can ask me questions im full yolngu and i know my culture .yidaki belongs to my people why does she say voilaton of my culture what does voilaton mean really? we paint sacred minytji on yidaki sometimes we leave plain sometimes .we paint;or sometimes we put stiky tapes. . but everything we paints are sacred
we can paints our totems like what belongs to us passed down from father or grandpa and also granny minytji dfrom mothers side or mothers minytji or waku that means my mothers grandmother .\'
if you come up to our land we can teach you more even womens can come/.m well anyway see ya

Hi Guan,

I am one of the people helping to put together the forthcoming didgeridu festival and Peter has suggested I engage with you on something;

Women playing didgeridu.

I'm aware of sensitivities around the issue, and also about the power of good that I think would inevitably come if Djalu were able to make a public statement that he was comfortable with on the matter. As an elder from an area traditional to didgeridu it would be a great act of reconcilation and would play a part in liberating half the population would on the issue.

Can you possibly canvas it with him?

Given the health benefits of didge for respiratory problems and sleeping problems, in my better hypothetical world I hope that all Australian children will one day have the opportunity to learn it.

If it is considered too risky I am prepared to postpone the matter.

Best, Dean

Thanks again Guan. This is very exciting. A Yolngu Matha version and an English version would be more than useful.

There have been similar developments within my specialty area of throat singing. Women used to be banned from throat singing in Tibet until enlightened forces (which may have included the Dalai Lama) changed the policy and other places like Tuva where women were told (the familar story) that they might have babies with three heads and that sort of thing. Yet Canadian Inuit and South African Xhosa women are the ones who throat sing there.

I certainly don't want to put any noses out of joint but any developments and clarifications would be precious.

Cheers, Dean

That's interesting about throat singing. Awesome! Anyone else here is a throat singer?

Pedro