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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 -
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 -
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 -
“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 -
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 -
Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the Landscape
Published 2016-01-01Warlpiri people of Central Australia have served on a number of occasions as exemplars of the Derridean premise that no society is without writing (Derrida 1976: 109) (e.g. Rothenberg and Rothenberg 1983: 139; Biddle ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories.
Published 2006-01-01Digital technologies are altering research practices surrounding creation and use of ethnographic field recordings, and the methodologies and paradigms of the disciplines centered around their interpretation. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Engaging with archived Warlpiri song
Published 2018-01-01In the Central Australian Warlpiri community of Yuendumu, efforts to document and revitalise Warlpiri songs take place in an era where there are fewer contexts for the performance of associated ceremonies, consequently ...Open AccessConference paper -
EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text
Published 2006-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Including music and the temporal arts in language documentation
Published 2012-01-01This chapter is intended for linguistic researchers preparing to undertake fieldwork, probably documenting one of the world’s many small or endangered languages. Recognising that linguists have their own priorities and ...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 -
Italian Traditional Music in Adelaide in the 1970s and 1980s
Published 2012-01-01A version of this chapter was originally presented at the Second National Folklore Conference in Sydney in October 1986, responding to the conference theme “multicultural influences upon the Australian folk heritage”. This ...Open AccessBook chapter