Recently added articles from Australian Aboriginal Studies:
Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song.(INTRODUCTION)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In the period from 1984 to the present, numerous collections of essays dedicated entirely or partly to Aboriginal song and dance have appeared. (1) Each of these represented a response to particular stimuli. Three publications, Songs of Aboriginal Australia, The Politics of Dance and ...
Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: bringing language and music together.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musicians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that are emerging from our interdisciplinary study of the ...
Morrdjdjanjno ngan-marnbom story nakka, 'songs that turn me into a story teller': The morrdjdjanjno of western Arnhem Land.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Morrdjdjanjno is the name of a song genre from the Arnhem Land plateau in the Top End of the Northern Territory and this paper is a first description of this previously undocumented song tradition. Morrdjdjanjno are songs owned neither by individuals or clans, but are handed down ...
Sung and spoken: an analysis of two different versions of a Kun-barlang love song.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: In examining a sung version and a spoken version of a Kun-barlang love song text recorded by Alice Moyle in 1962, I outline the context and overall structure of the song, then provide a detailed comparative analysis of the two versions. I draw some preliminary conclusions about ...
Simplifying musical practice in order to enhance local identity: the case of rhythmic modes in the Walakandha wangga (Wadeye, Northern Territory).
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Around 1982, senior performers of the Walakandha wangga, a repertory of song and dance from the northern Australian community of Wadeye (Port Keats), made a conscious decision to simplify their complex musical and dance practice in order to strengthen the articulation of a group ...
"Too long, that wangga': analysing wangga texts over time.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: For the past forty or so years, Daly region song-men have joined with musicologists and linguists to document their wangga songs. This work has revealed a corpus of more than one hundred wangga songs composed in five language varieties (1) Within this corpus are a few wangga ...
Flesh with country: juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi song texts.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: For some time researchers of Centralian-style songs have found that compositional and performance practices that guide the construction and musical treatment of song texts have a broader social function. Most recently, Barwick has identified an 'aesthetics of parataxis or ...
The poetics of central Australian song.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from the difficulties in identifying words in song. The latter is the subject of this paper, where I ...
Budutthun ratja wiyinymirri: formal flexibility in the Yolnu manikay tradition and the challenge of recording a complete repertoire (1).
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Among the Yolnu (people) of north-eastern Arnhem Land, manikay (song) series serve as records of sacred relationships between humans, country and ancestors. Their formal structures constitute the over-arching order of all ceremonial actions, and their lyrics comprise sacred ...
Australian Aboriginal song language: so many questions, so little to work with.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Recent years have seen a significant upturn in research activity into Indigenous song language. We now have teams of researchers including anthropologists, linguists and musicologists engaged in longer-term song language projects. This paper seeks to outline that activity and suggest lines ...
Linking ecosystem services to well-being: a case study of Aboriginal communities in northern Australia.(RESEARCH REPORT)
Sep 22, 2007; ... This study investigated the role of ecosystem services in the well-being of Aboriginal Australians, in the tropical savanna region of northern Australia. There is significant literature available to suggest that Aboriginal communities depend upon the natural system (Williams 1986 and 1998; ...
A Kimberley concept of socially useful work.(COMMENT)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A challenge facing the nation is to imagine new social, cultural and economic possibilities that is inclusive of Indigenous Australians. In the Kimberley, mananambarra (plural: senior Indigenous men and women) were committed to a belief in the sanctity of socially useful work, (2) both ...
Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land.(Sound recording review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land Kevin Djimarr (composer, songman and man-beringinj (clapsticks)), James lyuna (vocals), Jimmy Djarrbbarali (vocals), Owen Yalandja (mako (didjeridu)), Murray Garde and Stephen Wild (field recording and production), Declan ...
Disturbances and Dislocations: Understanding teaching and learning experiences in Indigenous Australian women's music and dance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Disturbances and Dislocations: Understanding teaching and learning experiences in Indigenous Australian women's music and dance Elizabeth Mackinlay 2007 Peter Lang, Bern (European University Studies Series 11 Education, Vol 932), 294pp+CD-ROM, ISBN 978 3 03910 825 1 ...
Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt (editors) 2005 Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, vii+171 pp, ISBN 987 0 85575 493 8 There are different ways of ...
Melodies of Mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Melodies of Mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia Fiona Magowan 2007 University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, xvii+222pp, ISBN 978 1 92069 499 9 Like many other Aboriginal song traditions, the song tradition that forms the focus of Melodies of ...
Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The wangga of north Australia.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The wangga of north Australia Allan Marett 2005 Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut (music/culture series), xxiii+292pp bound, with CD audio recording, ISBN 0 8195 6617 9 Since 1986, Allan Marett has journeyed ...
Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land.(Sound recording review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North Western Arnhem Land David Minyimak and others (composers/ performers), Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Joy Williams, Sabine Hoeng (field recording/ editing/transcriptions/notes) 2005 Batchelor Press, CD+48pp booklet, ISBN 1 74131 050 4 ...
Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's traditional songs from Arnerre, Central Australia.(Sound recording review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's traditional songs from Arnerre, Central Australia Alison Ngamperle Ross and Myfany Turpin 2003 Papulu Apparr-Kari Language and Culture Centre, Tennant Creek (issued both as cassette and CD, with accompanying booklet, 335pp), ISBN 0 ...
Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "homelands' in transition.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "homelands' in transition Helen Hughes, 2007 The Centre for Independent Studies Limited, St Leonards, xv + 237pp, ISBN 978 1 864321 35 7 Helen Hughes is angry about the situation of Aboriginal people in ...