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Absolute tempo in multiple performances of Aboriginal songs: analyzing recordings of djanba 12 and djanba 14
Bailes, Freya; Barwick, LindaPublished 2011-01-01Songs that are not notated but transmitted through live performance are of particular interest for the psychological study of the stability of tempo across multiple performances. While experimental research points to highly ...Open AccessArticle -
“An ample and very poetical narrative”: the vicissitudes of “La Pia” between the literary and oral traditions
Barwick, LindaPublished 2005-01-01In the nearly seven hundred years since Dante's Purgatorio first appeared, the story of “La Pia” (Purgatorio V, 130-136), a Sienese woman who died under mysterious circumstances in the Maremma region, has generated much ...Open AccessBook chapter -
“An ample and very poetical narrative”: the vicissitudes of “La Pia” between the literary and oral traditions.
Barwick, LindaPublished 2005-01-01In the nearly seven hundred years since Dante's Purgatorio first appeared, the story of “La Pia” (Purgatorio V, 130-136), a Sienese woman who died under mysterious circumstances in the Maremma region, has generated much ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Arriving, digging, performing, returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia
Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Blythe, Joe; Walsh, MichaelPublished 2007-01-01This article covers issues around song language interpretation and documentation in relation to a djanba song in Murriny Patha language composed by Lawrence Kolumboort (djanba 11).Open AccessBook chapter -
Baartjap's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01From the 1950s to the 1980s, Barrtjap (Tommy Burrenjuck, c. 1925–1992) was a ritual leader and one of the most prominent singers/composers in Belyuen (Delissaville), one of the heartlands of the wangga tradition. The ...Open AccessOther -
Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio: cross-cultural perspectives on related genres of popular music theatre
Barwick, LindaPublished 1994-01-01The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio are contemporary traditions of sung popular theatre that use written librettos drawing on European chivalrous verse romances. Their present-day forms, themes and performance ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Central Australian Women’s Traditional Music: Yawulyu/Awelye. Indigenous Music Case Study Report for the Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures Project. Revised Version.
Barwick, Linda; Turpin, MyfanyPublished 2013-09-12This report concerns yawulyu/awelye, an important ceremonial genre of traditional songs performed by women in Central Australia. Drawing on extensive published literature, our fieldwork in the area over many years, and a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Central Australian women’s traditional songs: keeping yawulyu/awelye strong
Barwick, Linda; Turpin, MyfanyPublished 2016-01-01Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and awelye (in Arandic XE “Arandic” languages) are cognate names for Australian Aboriginal women’s country-based ceremonies in central Australia. Ceremonial performances constitute a ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Walsh, Michael; Reid, Nicholas; Ford, LysbethPublished 2005-01-01Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the ...Open AccessArticle -
Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories.
Barwick, Linda; Thieberger, NicholasPublished 2006-01-01Digital technologies are altering research practices surrounding creation and use of ethnographic field recordings, and the methodologies and paradigms of the disciplines centered around their interpretation. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
Dilemmas in interpretation: contemporary perspectives on Berndt’s Goulburn Island song documentation
Barwick, Linda; O'Keeffe, Isabel; Singer, RuthPublished 2013-01-01More than fifty years after the first recording session and twenty-six years after the original publication of Ronald Berndt’s article ‘Other creatures in human guise’ (Berndt, 1987), this paper presents some contemporary ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Endangered songs and endangered languages.
Marett, Allan; Barwick, LindaPublished 2003-01-01It is widely reported in Australia and elsewhere that songs are considered by culture bearers to be the “crown jewels” of endangered cultural heritages whose knowledge systems have hitherto been maintained without the aid ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Engaging with archived Warlpiri song
Curran, Georgia; Fisher, Simon Japangardi; Barwick, LindaPublished 2018-01-01In the Central Australian Warlpiri community of Yuendumu, efforts to document and revitalise Warlpiri songs take place in an era where there are fewer contexts for the performance of associated ceremonies, consequently ...Open AccessConference paper -
Including music and the temporal arts in language documentation
Barwick, LindaPublished 2012-01-01This chapter is intended for linguistic researchers preparing to undertake fieldwork, probably documenting one of the world’s many small or endangered languages. Recognising that linguists have their own priorities and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Italian traditional music in Adelaide
Barwick, LindaPublished 1987-01-01This article questions the framing of Italian and other immigrant music traditions within Australian folklore studies. It discusses the fundamental diversity of regional musical cultures brought by Australia's immigrants ...Open AccessArticle -
Italian Traditional Music in Adelaide in the 1970s and 1980s
Barwick, LindaPublished 2012-01-01A version of this chapter was originally presented at the Second National Folklore Conference in Sydney in October 1986, responding to the conference theme “multicultural influences upon the Australian folk heritage”. This ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: bringing language and music together
Barwick, Linda; Birch, Bruce; Evans, NicholasPublished 2007-01-01Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musi- cians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that ...Open AccessArticle -
Keepsakes and surrogates: hijacking music technology at Wadeye (northwest Australia)
Barwick, LindaPublished 2017-01-01This paper focuses on some uses of recording technology in the township of Wadeye in Australia’s Northern Territory, resulting from a project focusing on djanba, a genre of public ceremonial song created and performed by ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Lambudju's Wangga
Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, LysbethPublished 2016-11-01Bobby Lane Lambudju (1941–1993) was a leading Wadjiginy songman at Belyuen in the late 1980s and early 1990s whose songs display a rich variety of forms, diverse melodies and even mixes of languages (his own language, ...Open AccessOther -
Language Identifying Codes: Remaining Issues, Future Prospects
Musgrave, Simon; Barwick, Linda; Walsh, Michael; Treloar, AndrewPublished 2013-01-01The work of organisations such as PARADISEC is crucially dependent on accurate and reliable identification of the languages which are represented in resources. For efficient discovery of resources to be possible, an ...Open AccessPresentation
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