Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how the late Yolnu educator, musician, and researcher, Mandawuy Yunupinu AC, drew inspiration from the ganma site on his Gumatj clan homeland of Biranybirany to spark a raft of pedagogical, musical, and intercultural innovations in Australia through his acclaimed band, Yothu Yindi. It explains Yunupinu's development of ganma as a pedagogical framework through his formative work as a teacher and principal in Yolnu schools in the 1980s and how this informed his incorporation of these ideas into his music for Yothu Yindi. The chapter discusses how, through Yunupinu's agency as this band's lead singer and composer, the ethos of ganma would have a pivotal role in educating the greater public about Indigenous Australians and their values in accessible and inclusive ways. It argues how, Yunupinu theorised and applied the concept of ganma as a broadened social paradigm for an inclusive Australia that was predicated on engendering balance and mutual respect via new kinds of exchanges across cultures.
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