| Description |
1 online resource (xlv, 315 pages) : illustrations, map, music |
| Series |
Indigenous music, language and performing arts |
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Indigenous music of Australia.
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| Contents |
An introduction to the Islands -- The archived recordings -- Singing identity -- Kulama -- The Tiwi language(s) -- The classical Tiwi music -- Emerging musical genres |
| Summary |
"Perhaps the most defining feature of Tiwi song is the importance placed on the creative innovation of the individual singer/composer. Tiwi songs are fundamentally new, unique and occasion specific, and yet sit within a continuum of an oral artistic tradition. Performed in ceremony, at public events, for art and for fun, songs form the core of the Tiwi knowledge system and historical archive. Held by song custodians and taught through sung and danced ritual, generations of embodied practice are still being created and accumulated as people continue to sing. In 2009 Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim over 1300 recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, that are held in the archives at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). The Old Songs are Always New explores the return home of these recordings to the Tiwi Islands and describes the musical and vocal characteristics, performance context and cultural function of the twelve Tiwi song types, giving an overview of the linguistic and poetic devices used by Tiwi composers"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Genevieve Campbell has worked for 30 years as a professional French Horn player and since 2007 has been involved with senior Tiwi singers in musical collaboration which has resulted in numerous performances, recordings and study centred around the repatriation to the Tiwi community of ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi ceremony and song. She is currently a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Songs, Tiwi (Australia) -- History and criticism
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Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Tiwi Islands (N.T.) -- History and criticism
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Tiwi (Australian people) -- Music -- History and criticism
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Tiwi (Australian people) -- Folklore
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Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian.
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Songs, Tiwi (Australia)
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Tiwi (Australian people)
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Northern Territory -- Tiwi Islands.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743328767 |
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1743328761 |
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9781743328842 |
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1743328842 |
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