Landscapes of indigenous performance : music, song and dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land / edited by Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt.
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 Arn...
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Canberra :
Aboriginal Studies Press,
[2005]
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Table of 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.