| Description |
viii, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: Yidaki / Mandaway Yunupingu -- Introduction: One Instrument, Many Voices / Philip Hayward and Karl Neuenfeldt -- Ch. 1. Ancient Voice - Contemporary Expression / Kev Carmody and Karl Neuenfeldt -- Ch. 2. Education, Empowerment and Entertainment / Mick Davison and Karl Neuenfeldt -- Ch. 3. The Didjeridu - A Portal to Culture / David Hudson and Fred Tietjen -- Ch. 4. Accompanying the Dreaming / Steven Knopoff -- Ch. 5. Continuation, Dissemination and Innovation / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- Ch. 6. Gender 'Taboos' and Didjeridus / Linda Barwick -- Thread 1: The Issue of Gender -- Ch. 7. The Didjeridu in the Desert / Karl Neuenfeldt -- Ch. 8. Terra Incognita: the Career of Charlie McMahon / Shane Homan -- Ch. 9. The Didjeridu and Alternative Lifestylers' Reconstruction of Social Reality / Patricia Sherwood -- Thread 2: Notions of Authenticity -- Ch. 10. Out of Time, Out of Place / Fiona Magowan |
| Summary |
The Didjeridu: From Arabem Land to Internet is the first comprehensive study of the Australian Aboriginal instrument, the didjeridu, from a range of musical, cultural and sociological viewpoints. Written in an informed but accessible style, individual chapters analyse traditional uses of the instrument; its use in contemporary Aboriginal rock; the perspective of various accomplished players (both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal); and aspects of the instrument's global diffusion in the 1990s |
| Related To |
Special issue of Perfect Beat |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Discography: page 183 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Music.
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Didjeridu music -- History and criticism.
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Didjeridu.
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| Author |
Neuenfeldt, Karl William, 1947-
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| LC no. |
97149528 |
| ISBN |
186462003X |
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1864620048 (paperback) |
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