Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Larrakia artist, activist and traditional owner Gullawun Daniel Roque Lee talks about his country around the Darwin region and how non-Aboriginal didgeridoo cutters are taking trees from his land without permission. This issue is coming up again in addition to a range of other problems regarding the commercialisation of this musical instrument in the global market.
The iDIDJ Forum has a thread devoted to this topic of misappropriation and commercialisation:
http://forum.ididj.com.au/ididj-australia-youtube-channel-changes-t1199.html
The full video runs for around 10 minutes and has been edited down, if there's enough interest to explore the issue further I'll upload the rest.
Larrakia artist, activist and traditional owner Gullawun Daniel Roque Lee talks about his country around the Darwin region and how non-Aboriginal didgeridoo cutters are taking trees from his land without permission. This issue is coming up again in addition to a range of other problems regarding the commercialisation of this musical instrument in the global market.
The iDIDJ Forum has a thread devoted to this topic of misappropriation and commercialisation:
http://forum.ididj.com.au/ididj-australia-youtube-channel-changes-t1199.html
The full video runs for around 10 minutes and has been edited down, if there's enough interest to explore the issue further I'll upload the rest.
