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Author Whiteoak, John.

Title Currency companion to music & dance in Australia / general editors John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell
Edition Second edition
Published Sydney : Currency House in association with Currency Press, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'BOOL  780.994 Whi/Cct  AVAILABLE
 MELB  780.994 Whi/Cct  AVAILABLE
Description 734 pages : maps ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Includes: Aboriginal influences -- Aboriginal performers of classical music -- Aboriginal protest songs -- Aboriginal songs in land claims -- Aboriginal traditions -- Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association - Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music -- Christian influences on Indigenous arts -- Didjeridu -- Gumleaf playing -- Indigenous adaptations -- Indigenous and other Australians collaborating -- Indigenous arts in the media - Indigenous dance companies -- Indigenous peoples organisations -- Jacky-Jacky -- Sacred Dance -- Songlines -- Torres Strait Islander traditions --
Summary The second Currency Companion to the performing arts is unique in its comprehensiveness and its recognition of cultural diversity and community from 1788 to the present in locations as diverse as the Cocos Islands and Norfolk Island
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Dance -- Australia.
Music -- Australia.
Music -- Australia -- Encyclopedias.
Dance -- Australia -- Encyclopedias.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Author Scott-Maxwell, Aline.
Whiteoak, John, 1942-
Currency House Inc
LC no. 00002438
ISBN 9780958121316
0958121311 :
Other Titles Companion to music and dance in Australia
Currency companion to music and dance in Australia
Music and dance in Australia
Companion to music and dance in Australia