| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 171 pages) : illustrations, portraits, music |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Both indigenous and non-indigenous contributors demonstrate how local music and dance genres have been subjected to missionary, institutional, popular and global influences. They provide a cultural background and history of Torres Strait music, and how contemporary Christian music & dance in Arnhem Land incorporates traditional |
| Analysis |
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) |
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Music |
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Performing arts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
En-aus |
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Print version record |
| In |
ACQUIRE [electronic resource] : Central Queensland University Institutional Repository |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Social life and customs.
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Dance, Aboriginal Australian -- History.
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Dance, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- History.
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Dance, Torres Strait Islander.
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Music -- Australia -- History and criticism.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Book
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Music.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Magowan, Fiona.
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Neuenfeldt, Karl.
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| LC no. |
2006365903 |
| ISBN |
0855756799 (electronic bk.) |
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9780855756796 (electronic bk.) |
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