PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures): Recent submissions
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'Oltre l'Australia c'è la luna': Maggio garfagnino and the Emigrant Experience
Published 2012-01-01When I first visited the Garfagnana region of north-western Tuscany in 1991, I was assured by functionaries from the provincial government that the Maggio tradition of sung popular theatre would be finished within five ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Dilemmas in interpretation: contemporary perspectives on Berndt’s Goulburn Island song documentation
Published 2013-01-01More than fifty years after the first recording session and twenty-six years after the original publication of Ronald Berndt’s article ‘Other creatures in human guise’ (Berndt, 1987), this paper presents some contemporary ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Repatriation and innovation: the impact of archival recordings on endangered dance-song traditions and ethnomusicological research
Published 2014-11-11For some time, ethnomusicologists working in Australian Aboriginal communities have repatriated and disseminated audio and video recordings from archival and personal collections to cultural heritage communities as a primary ...Open AccessPresentation -
PARADISEC: its history and future
Published 2013-01-01Founded in 2003 by a team of linguists and musicologists at the University of Sydney, Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered ...Open AccessPresentation -
Thanks for not throwing that away: How archival data (unexpectedly) inform the linguistic and ethnographic record
Published 2013-01-01Witnessing the explosion in the amount of digital data over the past decade many authors have concluded that not everything can be preserved, that we must instead develop strategies for prioritizing objects for digital ...Open AccessPresentation