Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song, and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land

Magowan, Fiona

ISBN 10: 0855754931 / ISBN 13: 9780855754938

Published by Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song, and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land
• Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855754931
• ISBN 13: 9780855754938
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This collection shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past and more recently to other external forces beyond local control. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity; at contemporary cultural performance as a contested domain; and at cross-cultural issues of recording and teaching music and dance as experienced by Indigenous leaders and educators and non-Indigenous researchers and scholars.

About the Author

Fiona Magowan had lectureships in anthropology at Manchester University and Adelaide University in South Australia before moving to Queen’s University in Belfast.