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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Amanda.

Contributor:

Harris, Amanda, editor.

Brown, Reuben, contributor.

Australian National University, issuing body.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Australia--Cross-cultural studies.

Social change.

Culture diffusion--Australia.

Culture diffusion.

Intercultural communication in art.

Music in intercultural communication.

Aboriginal Australians--Music--21st century--Cross-cultural studies.

Aboriginal Australians.

Art, Aboriginal Australian--21st century--Cross-cultural studies.

Art, Aboriginal Australian.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2014

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

Language Note:

English

System Details:

textfile

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781925022216 (ebook)

1925022218 (ebook)

OCLC:

893646857

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_515960