Landscapes of indigenous performance : music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land
2005
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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.
Main title:
Landscapes of indigenous performance : music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land / edited by Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt.
Imprint:
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, ©2005.
Collation:
vii, 171 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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:
9780855754938 (paperback)
Dewey class:
781.629912
Local class:
780.8994
Language:
English
Subject:
Music -- Australia -- History and criticismTorres Strait Islanders -- Music -- History and criticismDance, Torres Strait IslanderTorres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customsTorres Strait Islander -- Customs and ceremoniesTorres Strait Islander -- MusicAboriginal Australians -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Music -- History and criticismDance, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Social life and customsDance, Aboriginal Australian -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Songs and musicAboriginal Australians -- DancesAboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremoniesAboriginal Australians -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Customs and ceremonies
BRN:
108667
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 780.8994 LAN | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |