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dc.contributor.authorMarett, Allan
dc.contributor.authorBarwick, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-12
dc.date.available2015-04-12
dc.date.issued2007-01-01
dc.identifier.citationMarett, Allan, & Barwick, Linda. (2007). Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2007(2), 1-5.en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0729-4352
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/13111
dc.descriptionThis is a post-print version (authors' accepted manuscript) with page numbers edited to match the published version.en_AU
dc.description.abstractThis article serves as an introduction to the special issue 'Studies in Aboriginal Song' edited by Marett and Barwick. Since 1984, numerous collections of essays dedicated entirely or partly to Aboriginal song and dance appeared. Each of these represented a response to particular stimuli. Much of the work presented in the present volume, Studies in Aboriginal Song: A Special Issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies, resulted from research projects that focus on endangered language and music and involved either collaborative work between linguists and musicologist, or work by scholars with training in both disciplines. Faced as we are with the ongoing and escalating loss of so many of Australia’s Indigenous languages and performance traditions, there is some evidence that studies of Aboriginal song are increasing. And yet too little is being done too late by too few. In musicology in particular, the discipline has failed adequately to respond to the cultural tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes as manifold traditions of Australia’s Indigenous heritage are lost to future generations of Aboriginal peoples and to the national heritage. Major initiatives, such as the various endangered language programs mentioned in our essay, and the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia, are attempting to find solutions that will empower Indigenous peoples in their struggle to maintain their threatened languages and traditions in the face of the enormous forces arrayed against them. But so much remains to be done, not least in training young persons, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, with the disciplinary and practical skills to meet this challenge.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipAustralian Research Councilen_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherAboriginal Studies Pressen_AU
dc.rightsThis material is copyright. Other than for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act, no part of it may in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying, recording or otherwise) be altered, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without prior written permission from the University of Sydney Library and/or the appropriate author.en
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dc.subjectAboriginal musicen_AU
dc.subjectAustraliaen_AU
dc.subjectlinguisticsen_AU
dc.subjectmusic and languageen_AU
dc.subjectethnomusicologyen_AU
dc.titleMusical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal songen_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
usyd.departmentPARADISEC, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydneyen_AU


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