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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: vii, 171 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0855754931
  • 9780855754938
Other title:
  • Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.629912 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3770 .L3 2005
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. From 'Navajo' to 'Taba Naba' : unravelling the travels and metamorphosis of a popular Torres Strait Islander song -- 2. Home among the gum trees : an ethnography of Yolngu musical performance in mainstream contexts -- 3. Music of the Torres Strait -- 4. Mabo, music and culture -- 5. Dancing into film : exploring Yolngu motion, ritual and cosmology in the Yirrkala Film Project -- 6. A rally at Ramingining : the 'uniting' force of music and dance in a Yolngu Christian context -- 7. Grand concerts, Anzac days and evening entertainments : glimpses of musical culture on Thursday Island, Queensland, 1900-1945 -- 8. Making the journey in : opening up spaces for performing, teaching and learning Aboriginal performance traditions -- 9. Musical times : the interplay between metrical time and real time in a Central Arnhem land clan song series.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 781.629912 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A457077B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. From 'Navajo' to 'Taba Naba' : unravelling the travels and metamorphosis of a popular Torres Strait Islander song -- 2. Home among the gum trees : an ethnography of Yolngu musical performance in mainstream contexts -- 3. Music of the Torres Strait -- 4. Mabo, music and culture -- 5. Dancing into film : exploring Yolngu motion, ritual and cosmology in the Yirrkala Film Project -- 6. A rally at Ramingining : the 'uniting' force of music and dance in a Yolngu Christian context -- 7. Grand concerts, Anzac days and evening entertainments : glimpses of musical culture on Thursday Island, Queensland, 1900-1945 -- 8. Making the journey in : opening up spaces for performing, teaching and learning Aboriginal performance traditions -- 9. Musical times : the interplay between metrical time and real time in a Central Arnhem land clan song series.

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