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Dancing in shadows : histories of Nyungar performance
- Title
- Dancing in shadows : histories of Nyungar performance / Anna Haebich.
- Author
- Haebich, Anna
- Publication
- Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-674 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xix, 405 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed them, and generously share their culture, history and language in theatre."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-385) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Dr Richard Walley OAM ; interviewers Anna Haebich and Terri-ann White -- Introduction -- 1. Performance culture and activism -- 2. Tourism, sports and official welcomes -- 3. Mission music making -- 4. Performing in 'unexpected places' -- 5. Nyungar theatre -- 6. Bindjareh Pinjarra: a play about the massacre -- 7. Wanjoo! Yarning witih Gianna Williams.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-674
- ISBN
- 1742589715
- 9781742589718
- OCLC
- 1011227736
- Author
- Haebich, Anna, author.
- Title
- Dancing in shadows : histories of Nyungar performance / Anna Haebich.
- Publisher
- Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-385) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-674