| Description |
[xvi], 313 pages : illustrations, maps, music, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part I. Living the dreaming: music in Aboriginal life -- 1. Music and ritual in Aboriginal culture -- 2. Performing Aboriginal culture -- 3. Music, land, family -- 4. Musical instruments -- 5. The words of song -- 6. Ceremonies -- 7. Listening to the fire: composition and aesthetics --8. Postscript: after 1980 -- Part II. Witnessing the dreaming: music performance conventions in different areas of Aboriginal Australia with listening guides -- 9. East and north-east Arnhem Land -- 10. North-west and north-central Arnhem Land -- 11. Central Australia -- 12. Other areas: northern Queensland, Tiwi Islands, Kimberly, Tasmania, south-east Australia -- Part III. Examining the dreaming: towards a more sensitive listening and analysing -- 13. Music notations |
| Summary |
For the Indigenous people of Australia, songs and dances, have encoded their history and religion, their social organisation, and their connectedness to the land for 60,000 years. As research assistant to the eminent musicologist Alice Moyle, and later on her own behalf, Jill Stubington spent many years between 1960 and 1980 in remote regions of Australia learning to listen to this music, to understand its complexity, its central role in identity, social cohesion, celebration and the resolution of family conflict. From 1960 new sound and film equipment widened the opportunities for recording; and soon the guitar and recorded popular music began to intermingle with the traditional styles. It became a matter of urgency to use the new technology to preserve the old culture. In three sections the book details the diverse culture, its musical instruments and practice; and provides listening guides to the available CDs and notations |
| Analysis |
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) |
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Performing arts |
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Sociology: customs & folklore |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 281-304 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Songs and music.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Australia -- Historiography.
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Music -- Australia -- History and criticism.
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Religion and geography.
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Songs, Aboriginal Australian.
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Ethnophilosophy -- Australia.
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Spirituality in music.
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| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Music.
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| Author |
Moyle, Alice M. (Alice Marshall)
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| ISBN |
9780980280227 (hbk.) |
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9780980280234 (paperback) |
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