Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Recent submissions
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Pan-Indigenous Encounter in the 1950s: ‘Ethnic Dancer’ Beth Dean
Published 2017From 1950, ‘ethnic dancer’ Beth Dean made her living on a lecture-demonstration touring circuit of the dance traditions of Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and North America. To assert her expertise, she claimed ...Open AccessPreprint -
Disciplining music: Too many Peter Sculthorpes?
Published 2020Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Raising the musical self-efficacy of classroom teachers: best practice collaborative strategies for visiting artists
Published 2021-02-12This study aimed to investigate the collaborative possibilities of a modified single visit format to support the musical self-efficacy of teachers. A “truncated” action research model (Cain, 2008) was used to demonstrate ...Open AccessThesis -
Variation or contamination? Narrative instability in the Italian traditional song Donna lombarda
Published 1994This paper arises out of my doctoral research (Barwick 1985), which examined a large sample of documented versions of the Italian traditional narrative song (or 'ballad', to adopt the term by which such strophic narrative ...Open AccessPreprint -
Women as performers and agents of change in the Italian ballad tradition
Published 1992What is lost when performances of orally-transmitted traditional songs are transcribed and published as written documents? This question arose for me as a result of the lack of connection I found between my experiences as ...Open AccessBook chapter