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PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)
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PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving. Our research group is composed of investigators from the four participating institutions: the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and New England, and the Australian National University.
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Papers by members of the PARADISEC project.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Transcription as deflowering: collection practices in Italy, pre-1939
Published 1988-1989This paper focuses on the interaction between transcribers and performers of traditional songs before the ready availability of sound recording. What acts did the collectors perform to produce the written documents that ...Open AccessArticle