In Between Songs

Director Joshua Bell’s documentary In Between Songs profiles the problems faced by Australia’s Aboriginal people to maintain their identity and lifestyle in the modern world. Bell, who became fascinated with traditional Aboriginal music, studied the form with such passion that he befriended Djalu, a music teacher and Yonlgu leader, who is the center of this documentary that celebrates Djalu’s culture and heritage while showing how modern bauxite mining threatens the native population., An Aboriginal Australian family attempt to hold on to their heritage in the face of modern society.