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Tony Perkins Tony Perkins i(A132374 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 9 y separately published work icon Singing the Coast Margaret Somerville , Tony Perkins , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2010 Z1684363 2010 single work prose

'Most Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung, and it is through this process that places are learned about and cared for. These songs can be for all of us, in the places where Aboriginal stories are rapidly overwritten with grids of roads and towns.

Together Perkins and Somerville explore one coastal group's experience in maintaining the stories and songs of their country: Perkins' Gumbaynggirr homeland in mid-north coast New South Wales. These stories and songs are unique in their particularities, yet universal in their sense of knowledge, understanding and openness to sharing.

By taking up the metaphor of singing to capture a quality of voice, Perkins and Somerville show us how to share the land and its stories throughout Australia.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Remembering in the Contact Zone: Telling and Listening To, A Massacre Story Margaret Somerville , Tony Perkins , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Altitude , no. 6 2005; (p. 1-14)
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