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Landscapes of indigenous performance : music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land / edited by Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt.
- Title
- Landscapes of indigenous performance : music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land / edited by Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt.
- Publication
- Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.
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- Description
- vii, 171 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Papers explore how Indigenous traditional music and dance has responded to colonial control and how it responds to a contemporary environment; Arnhem Land, Northern Territory and Torres Strait Island music and dance; history of; in film; in education.
- Subject
- Torres Strait Islanders > Songs and music
- Torres Strait Islanders > Rites and ceremonies
- Torres Strait Islanders > Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians > Songs and music
- Aboriginal Australians > Rites and ceremonies
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Social life and customs
- Dance > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Music > Australia > History and criticism
- Torres Strait Islanders > Music > History and criticism
- Dance, Torres Strait Islander
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Music > History and criticism
- Dance, Aboriginal Australian > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.) > History
- Dance, Aboriginal Australian > History
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Music
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From 'Navajo' to 'Taba Naba' : unravelling the travels and metamorphosis of a popular Torres Strait Islander song / Martin Nakata ; Karl Neuenfeldt -- Home among the gum trees : an ethnography of Yolngu musical performance in mainstream contexts / Peter Toner -- Music of the Torres Strait / Eddie Koiki Mabo -- Mabo, music and culture / Noel Loos -- Dancing into film : exploring Yolngu motion, ritual and cosmology in the Yirrkala Film Project / Fiona Magowan -- A rally at Ramingining : the 'uniting' force of music and dance in a Yolngu Christian context / Ingrid Slotte -- Grand concerts, Anzac days and evening entertainments : glimpses of musical culture on Thursday Island, Queensland, 1900-1945 / Steve Mulling ; Karl Neuenfeldt -- Making the journey in : opening up spaces for performing, teaching and learning Aboriginal performance traditions / Elizabeth Mackinlay -- Musical times : the interplay between metrical time and real time in a Central Arnhem Land clan song series / Greg Anderson.
- ISBN
- 0855754931
- OCLC
- 63255138
- SCSB-12140278
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library