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Author Moyle, Richard M.

Title Balgo : the musical life of a desert community / by Richard Moyle
Published Nedlands, W.A. : Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME), 1997

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Description 195 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 30 cm
Summary Based on fieldwork at Balgo between 1975 and 1982; comprehensive ethnographical analysis of musical and ceremonial life of the Balgo community; gives history of Balgo, origin of name; discusses musical characteristics, pitch, melody, instruments, song origins, poetry; discusses location and extent of Balgo's exchange of rituals with other communities; maps of Kukatja and neighbouring groups, Kukatja country as seen by Kukatja people, contact history; performance calendar; analysis of social structure and ceremonial ownership; detailed transcription, notation and analysis of selected songs; outlines men's and women's initiation rituals; dreaming tracks
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Music.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Balgo Hill (W.A.) -- Music.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Music.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo -- Music
Folk music -- Australia.
Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian.
Kukatja (Australian people) -- Music.
Kukatja (Australian people) -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Music.
Music -- Australia -- Balgo Hill (W.A.)
Music -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo
Songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Balgo Hill (W.A.)
Songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Balgo
Genre/Form Music.
Author Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education.
LC no. 2010561924
ISBN 0864225652