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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 -
Alien relations: Ecological and Ontological Dilemmas Posed for Indigenous Australians in the Management of “Feral” Camels on their Lands
Published 2017-01-01The colonization of indigenous people and their lands typically involved the introduction of domesticated species integral to the development of settler economies. These animals were bound up with European social and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
“An ample and very poetical narrative”: the vicissitudes of “La Pia” between the literary and oral traditions
Published 2005-01-01In the nearly seven hundred years since Dante's Purgatorio first appeared, the story of “La Pia” (Purgatorio V, 130-136), a Sienese woman who died under mysterious circumstances in the Maremma region, has generated much ...Open AccessBook chapter -
“An ample and very poetical narrative”: the vicissitudes of “La Pia” between the literary and oral traditions.
Published 2005-01-01In the nearly seven hundred years since Dante's Purgatorio first appeared, the story of “La Pia” (Purgatorio V, 130-136), a Sienese woman who died under mysterious circumstances in the Maremma region, has generated much ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Archaeological database development: the people and place project
Published 2011-01-01This project, funded by ANDS in 2011, will build the platform for a national database of historical archaeological collections, excavated sites and the people connected to those objects and places; to be called the Australian ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Archives and the Community
Published 2013-01-01The Community and the archive – preservation, ownership and dissemination. Archives had been thought of remote ivory tower spaces with dim vaults and dusty shelves. However archives have been changing as what is archives ...Open AccessPresentation -
Are Collections Scholarly Outputs? Re-defining Research Quality and Impact of Cultural Performative Findings
Published 2013-01-01The paper explores user-centred cultural heritage collections which are rooted in community life and scholarship, and searches for new terminology and rationale to define them as research outputs first by examining notions ...Open AccessPresentation -
Arriving, digging, performing, returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia
Published 2007-01-01This article covers issues around song language interpretation and documentation in relation to a djanba song in Murriny Patha language composed by Lawrence Kolumboort (djanba 11).Open AccessBook chapter -
Assessing the Value of Semantic Annotation Services for 3D Museum Artefacts
Published 2011-12-01This paper describes the 3DSA (3D Semantic Annotation) system developed at the University of Queensland that enables users to attach tags/annotations to points, surface regions or segments of 3D digital artefacts. The 3DSA ...Open AccessConference paper -
Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio: cross-cultural perspectives on related genres of popular music theatre
Published 1994-01-01The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio are contemporary traditions of sung popular theatre that use written librettos drawing on European chivalrous verse romances. Their present-day forms, themes and performance ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Bidwern project
Published 2007-02-20Unpublished presentation from the Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference at the University of Sydney, 5th December 2006Open AccessConference paper -
“Bilingual time” at Willowra: The beginnings of a community-initiated program, 1976-1977
Published 2017-01-01Formal schooling began at the Warlpiri-speaking community of Willowra, in north-western Central Australia, in 1968. When the present authors arrived at the school in 1976, to take up positions as the new teachers, many ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Bringing research and researchers to light: current and emerging challenges for a discipline-based knowledge resource
Published 2011-12-01Australian literary studies have, in the past decade, been greatly assisted by AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (www.austlit.edu.au), a multi-institutional collaboration between researchers, librarians and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Central Australian Women’s Traditional Music: Yawulyu/Awelye. Indigenous Music Case Study Report for the Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures Project. Revised Version.
Published 2013-09-12This report concerns yawulyu/awelye, an important ceremonial genre of traditional songs performed by women in Central Australia. Drawing on extensive published literature, our fieldwork in the area over many years, and a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Central Australian women’s traditional songs: keeping yawulyu/awelye strong
Published 2016-01-01Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and awelye (in Arandic XE “Arandic” languages) are cognate names for Australian Aboriginal women’s country-based ceremonies in central Australia. Ceremonial performances constitute a ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Challenges in lemmatising signed language digital video corpora: the measure of lexical frequency in Australian and British signed languages
Published 2011-01-01Digital video archives of Auslan (Australian sign language) and BSL (British Sign Language) are slowly being transformed into machine-readable linguistic corpora. Each archive (Auslan 2004-2008, BSL 2008-2001) consists of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Challenges in the repatriation of historic recordings to Papua New Guinea
Published 2004-01-01For over one hundred years, visitors to Papua New Guinea have been making recordings of music in our country. Prior to independence in 1975, many of these recordings ended up in archives in the countries of their collectors, ...Open AccessBook chapter