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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132292503321

Titolo

Circulating cultures : exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media / / edited by Amanda Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781925022216 (ebook)

1925022218 (ebook)

9781925022193 (paperback)

1925022196 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

306.4840994

Soggetti

Social change - Australia

Culture diffusion - Australia

Intercultural communication in art

Music in intercultural communication

Aboriginal Australians - 21st century

Art, Aboriginal Australian - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Archival objects and the circulation of culture / Amanda Harris -- Part 1: C. P. Mountford and the circulation of music, dance and film -- 2. Beth Dean and the transnational circulation of Aboriginal dance culture: gender, authority and C.P. Mountford / Victoria Haskins -- 3. The circle of songs: traditional song and the musical score to C.P. Mountford's documentary films / Anthony Linden Jones -- 4. Hearing Aboriginal music making in non-Indigenous accounts of the bush from the mid-twentieth century / Amanda Harris -- Part 2: Transformation and repatriation -- 5. Song as artefact: the reclaiming of song recordings empowering Indigenous stakeholders - and the recordings themselves / Genevieve Campbell -- 6. Turning subjects into objects



and objects into subjects: collecting human remains on the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition / Martin Thomas -- Part 3: Cultural journeys in the Top End -- 7. The role of songs in connecting the living and the dead: a funeral ceremony for Nakodjok in Western Arnhem Land / Reuben Brown -- 8. Cross and square: variegation in the transmission of songs and musical styles between the Kimberley and Daly Regions of Northern Australia / Sally Treloyn -- 9. Listening to heavy metal in Wadeye /John Mansfield.

Sommario/riassunto

Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape.