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Resultatives
Published 1983-01-01This paper looks at the syntactic and semantic conditions in English on resultative attributes, which describe the state of an entity resulting from the action denoted by the main predicate. It is argued that these entities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Italian traditional music in Adelaide
Published 1987-01-01This article questions the framing of Italian and other immigrant music traditions within Australian folklore studies. It discusses the fundamental diversity of regional musical cultures brought by Australia's immigrants ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Unison and "disagreement" in a mixed women's and men's performance from the Ellis collection, Oodnadatta, 1966
Published 1995-01-01This chapter explores the nature of musical 'disagreements' in a performance of the Kungka Kutjara (Two Women) performed by Antikirinya women and men at Oodnadatta in 1966, recorded by Catherine Ellis. Although unisonic ...Open AccessBook chapter -
‘Scolpire le parole’ [sculpting the words]: Context sensitivity in vocal and movement performance style of the Tuscan Maggio.
Published 1995-01-01In the maggio (sung popular theatre) of the Garfagnana valley north of Lucca, the main dimensions open to improvisation, and thus to context sensitivity, are music and movement. The song session, lasting about three ...Open AccessConference paper -
Endangered songs and endangered languages.
Published 2003-01-01It is widely reported in Australia and elsewhere that songs are considered by culture bearers to be the “crown jewels” of endangered cultural heritages whose knowledge systems have hitherto been maintained without the aid ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Planning for PARADISEC
Published 2003-01-01PARADISEC is a collaborative digital research resource set up by the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University in 2003, with funding from the Australia Research Council's ...Open AccessConference paper -
Tempo bands, metre and rhythmic mode in Marri Ngarr 'Church Lirrga' songs
Published 2003-01-01During the 1970s, the Marri Ngarr composer Pius Luckan and his brother Clement Tchinburur created a set of liturgical songs ('churcb lirrga') based on the didjeridu-accompanied dance-song genre Lirrga, one of several public ...Open AccessArticle -
Turning it all upside down . . . Imagining a distributed digital audiovisual archive
Published 2004-01-01What could and should be the relationship between research archives of endangered cultural heritage materials and the originating community? This paper argues that recent developments in distributed computing in a networked ...Open AccessArticle -
Networking digital data on endangered languages of the Asia Pacific region
Published 2005-01-01Since the invention of audio-visual recording technologies in the late nineteenth century, scholars of languages, cultures and musics from around the world have enthusiastically embraced the potential of portable recording ...Open AccessArticle -
“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 -
Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Published 2005-01-01Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the ...Open AccessArticle -
Performance, aesthetics, experience: thoughts on Yawulyu mungamunga songs
Published 2005-01-01In 2000 a CD of Warumungu women’s Yawulyu Mungamunga songs was published by Festival records (Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Language and Culture Centre & Barwick, 2000, 479), and launched in Tennant Creek and in Sydney at ...Open AccessBook chapter -
A musicologist’s wishlist: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation.
Published 2006-01-01This paper summarises some of the issues that have arisen for me in my collaborations with linguists in documentation of Australian song. It provides pointers for recording techniques and guidelines as to some of the things ...Open AccessArticle -
The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia: year one in review
Published 2006-01-01The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia was conceived at Gunyangara in Arnhem Land during the inaugural Indigenous Performance Symposium in August 2002. The symposium was funded by the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text
Published 2006-01-01Open AccessConference paper