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The gift of song : performing exchange in Western Arnhem land / Reuben Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Reuben (Ethnomusicologist), author.
- Series:
- SOAS studies in music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--Music--History and criticism.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Folk music--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Folk dance music--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--History and criticism.
- Folk dance music.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ceremonial exchange--Australia--Arnhem Land (N.T.).
- Ceremonial exchange.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Reuben Brown is a non-Indigenous (Settler/Balanda) applied ethnomusicologist specialising in Indigenous song and dance practices from western Arnhem Land (kun-borrk/manyardi). Brown has co-authored publications with Indigenous Australian ceremony leaders as well as musicologists, linguists, anthropologists, and historians on the relationship between language and song and the reuse of archival recordings to support transmission of Indigenous knowledge. Brown is an ARC DECRA research fellow at the Research Unit for Indigenous Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. His DECRA project investigates how ceremonial performance at Indigenous festivals in northern Australia enacts diplomacy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants, and between different clan and language groups.
- Contents:
- Receiving the gift
- Following footsteps
- 'They still help us': legacies of exchange
- 'You belong to Gunbalanya' : a reburial ceremony
- 'It's a secret, for you' : a Mamurrng ceremony
- 'That spirit changed my voice': a funeral ceremony for Nakodjok
- 'I'll tell you this Corroboree song' : an intercultural exchange in 1948
- 'Join in and dance' : festivals and new forms of exchange
- 'We're all family now' : understanding the exchange
- Returning the gift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brown, Reuben Gift of song
- ISBN:
- 9781003216339
- 1003216331
- 9781040008249
- 1040008240
- 1040008089
- 9781040008089
- Publisher Number:
- 40032485918
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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