Sentence examples for clapstick from inspiring English sources
noun
A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
The traditional solution is to mark the beginning of each take with a "clapper," or "clapstick," a set of wooden jaws about a foot long, snapped together in the picture field.
Because melodic variance is used to describe the land, the songlines – which also manifest in artworks, dance, the yirdaki and clapsticks – transcend language.
It's a powerful instrument that can be a healing instrument – it can share their knowledge, it can tell stories, it carries encyclopedias' worth of information about the culture which, as part of a holistic system – including the songlines and the clapsticks – is central to an oral tradition, so nothing is written down," Strunin says.
To my ear, Home is at its best when the older fellas chant in Tiwi language to the beat of clapsticks, but Indigenous crowds seem to think otherwise, incited to scale the stage when B2M do their squeaky-clean boyband R&B.
