Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Recent submissions
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Discussing ‘fair use’ of archived recordings of minority music from the mountains of southwestern China
Published 2011-12-01This paper describes and analyses public discussions within Kam (in Chinese, Dong ?) minority communities in rural southwestern China concerning potential wider online access to one major, recently established archive of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Looking at language: appropriate design for sign language resources in remote Australian Indigenous communities
Published 2011-12-01Sign languages, or iltyem-iltyem angkety, are in daily use in Arandic speaking communities of Central Australia. They are a form of communication used alongside other semiotic systems, including speech, gesture and drawing ...Open AccessConference paper -
Documentation of traditional songs and ritual texts: issues for archiving
Published 2011-12-01It is well established that the archiving of materials from endangered languages needs to be not just the archiving of recordings, but also a rich metadata, including, wherever possible, transcriptions, translations, and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Excellence in research for Australia and sustainable data
Published 2011-12-01We are now entering the second round of assessment under the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) model. A number of writers have drawn attention to the problems inherent in this model for the humanities and social ...Open AccessConference paper -
‘Scolpire le parole’ [sculpting the words]: Context sensitivity in vocal and movement performance style of the Tuscan Maggio.
Published 1995-01-01In the maggio (sung popular theatre) of the Garfagnana valley north of Lucca, the main dimensions open to improvisation, and thus to context sensitivity, are music and movement. The song session, lasting about three ...Open AccessConference paper