The treatment of the indigenous and mixed-race people portrayed in the movie has been repeated the world over.
My mother's side of the family (Native American/Spanish) had their acculturation/assimilation done at the Judson Academy in Arizona.
My father's side went through the same thing with the Catholic Church organizations in Louisiana.
It seems that the Spaniards wanted to eliminate any remnants of being part-Native American while the French wanted to mitigate any vestiges of being of African descent.
(But this is not the point behind this post.)
Former rockers such as Joe Strummer formed the Mescaleros, Peter Gabriel has worked with Deep Forest, while many others have also set out to find the most basic and pure forms of music by using indigenous music from all over the world.
Q; (While it predates Motown) Would the music of the Aborigines be a form of the original Soul Music?
Well I think it is meant to take the listener into a trance so they can be receptive to the stories of the dream time, perhaps it is more akin to the blues.
ReplyDeleteI agree - a 'prayer-like' trance?
ReplyDeleteWhy is that lady hugging the child! What's that supposed to mean??? Can somebody explain to me? Did she adopt her or something? What did that lady do to that child's parents, that's what I want to know!
ReplyDeleteNah, Desertflower. It's just a scene from the movie. When it was time for him to go on his Walkabout she let him go off with his grandfather.
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