Research Catalog

Title

Circulating cultures : exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media / edited by Amanda Harris.

Publication

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Harris, Amanda, 1976-

Description

viii, 268 pages

Summary

The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer; and the indigenisation of symbolic meanings in heavy metal music.

Subject

• Mountford, Charles P. 1890-1976
• Dean, Beth, 1918-2012
• Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014
• Setzler, Frank M. 1902-1975
• Namanilakarr, Nakodjok
• American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1948)
• 2000-2099
• Aboriginal Australians > Music > 21st century > Cross-cultural studies
• Social change > Australia > Cross-cultural studies
• Culture diffusion > Australia
• Intercultural communication in art
• Music in intercultural communication
• Art, Aboriginal Australian > 21st century > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Archival objects and the circulation of culture, Amanda Harris -- Part 1: C.P. Mountford and the circulation of music, dance and film -- Beth Dean and the transnational circulation of Aboriginal dance culture: gender, authority and C.P. Mountford, Victoria Haskins -- The circle of songs: traditional song and the musical score to C.P. Mountford's documentary films, Anthony Linden-Jones -- Hearing music and music making in non-indigenous accounts of the bush from the mid-twentieth century, Amanda Harris -- Part 2: Transformation and repatriation -- Song as artefact: the reclaiming of song recordings empowering Indigenous stakeholders - and the recordings themselves, Genevieve Campbell -- Turning subjects into objects and objects into subjects: collecting human remains on the 1948 Arnhem Land Exhibition, Martin Thomas -- Part 3: -- Cultural journeys in the Top End -- The role of songs in connecting the living and the dead: a funeral ceremony fro Nakodjok in western Arnhem Land, Rueben Brown -- Cross and square: variation in the transmission of songs and musical styles between the Kimberley and Daly regions of Northern Australia, Sally Treloyn -- Listening to Heavy Metal in Wadeye, John Mansfield.

ISBN

• 9781925022193
• 1925022196

OCLC

• 893646635
• SCSB-10496299

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library