Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "Australian Aboriginal music"
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Keepsakes and surrogates: hijacking music technology at Wadeye (northwest Australia)
Published 2017-01-01This paper focuses on some uses of recording technology in the township of Wadeye in Australia’s Northern Territory, resulting from a project focusing on djanba, a genre of public ceremonial song created and performed by ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Mirrwana and wurrkama: applying an Indigenous knowledge framework to collaborative research on ceremonies
Published 2014-01-01This chapter outlines how Ford, Barwick and Marett have collaborated to develop, implement, and critically evaluate a research project that integrates and remains true to both Indigenous and western academic knowledge ...Open AccessBook chapter -
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