Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Recent submissions
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Engaging with archived Warlpiri song
Published 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 -
Keepsakes and surrogates: hijacking music technology at Wadeye (northwest Australia)
Published 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 -
Multiple uses for old and new recordings: perspectives from the multilingual community of Warruwi
Published 2018-01-01This paper reports on collaborative research by a team of linguists, musicologists, elders, educators and young people from the multilingual Indigenous community of Warruwi (South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Sustaining women's yawulyu/awelye: some practitioners' and learners' perspectives
Published 2013-01-01In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they ...Open AccessArticle -
Absolute tempo in multiple performances of Aboriginal songs: analyzing recordings of djanba 12 and djanba 14
Published 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