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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes : Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (518 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Distinctive Voice in the AntipodesLOC classification:
  • ML3799.D57 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Stephen A. Wild: A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes -- Festschrift Background and Contents -- Indigenous Australia -- 1. A Different Mode of Exchange: The Mamurrng Ceremony of Western Arnhem Land -- 2. Warlpiri Ritual Contexts as Imaginative Spaces for Exploring Traditional Gender Roles -- 3. Form and Performance: The Relations of Melody, Poetics, and Rhythm in Dhalwangu Manikay -- 4. Alyawarr Women's Rain Songs -- 5. Singing with a Distinctive Voice: Comparative Musical Analysis and the Central Australian Musical Style in the Kimberley -- 6. Turning the Colonial Tide: Working towards a Reconciled Ethnomusicology in Australia -- Pacific Islands and Beyond -- 7. Chanting Diplomacy: Music, Conflict, and Social Cohesion in Micronesia -- 8. Songs for Distance, Dancing to Be Connected: Bonding Memories of the Ogasawara Islands -- 9. The Politics of the Baining Fire Dance -- 10. Touristic Encounters: Imag(in)ing Tahiti and Its Performing Arts -- 11. Heritage and Place: Kate Fagan's Diamond Wheel and Nancy Kerr's Twice Reflected Sun -- 12. Living in Hawai'i: The Pleasures and Rewards of Hawaiian Music for an 'Outsider' Ethnomusicologist -- Archiving and Academia -- 13. Protecting Our Shadow: Repatriating Ancestral Recordings to the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea -- 14. The History of the 'Ukulele 'Is Today' -- 15. 'Never Seen It Before': The Earliest Reports and Resulting Confusion about the Hagen Courting Dance -- 16. Capturing Music and Dance in an Archive: A Meditation on Imprisonment -- 17. Some Comments on the Gradual Inclusion of Musics beyond the Western Canon by Selected Universities and Societies -- 18. Ethnomusicology in Australia and New Zealand: A Trans‑Tasman Identity? -- Publications by Stephen A. Wild -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Ranging in scope from the musicological to the anthropological--from technical musical analyses to observations of the sociocultural context of music--these essays reflect not only on the varied and cross-disciplinary nature of Stephen A. Wild's work, but on the many facets of ethnomusicology today.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Stephen A. Wild: A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes -- Festschrift Background and Contents -- Indigenous Australia -- 1. A Different Mode of Exchange: The Mamurrng Ceremony of Western Arnhem Land -- 2. Warlpiri Ritual Contexts as Imaginative Spaces for Exploring Traditional Gender Roles -- 3. Form and Performance: The Relations of Melody, Poetics, and Rhythm in Dhalwangu Manikay -- 4. Alyawarr Women's Rain Songs -- 5. Singing with a Distinctive Voice: Comparative Musical Analysis and the Central Australian Musical Style in the Kimberley -- 6. Turning the Colonial Tide: Working towards a Reconciled Ethnomusicology in Australia -- Pacific Islands and Beyond -- 7. Chanting Diplomacy: Music, Conflict, and Social Cohesion in Micronesia -- 8. Songs for Distance, Dancing to Be Connected: Bonding Memories of the Ogasawara Islands -- 9. The Politics of the Baining Fire Dance -- 10. Touristic Encounters: Imag(in)ing Tahiti and Its Performing Arts -- 11. Heritage and Place: Kate Fagan's Diamond Wheel and Nancy Kerr's Twice Reflected Sun -- 12. Living in Hawai'i: The Pleasures and Rewards of Hawaiian Music for an 'Outsider' Ethnomusicologist -- Archiving and Academia -- 13. Protecting Our Shadow: Repatriating Ancestral Recordings to the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea -- 14. The History of the 'Ukulele 'Is Today' -- 15. 'Never Seen It Before': The Earliest Reports and Resulting Confusion about the Hagen Courting Dance -- 16. Capturing Music and Dance in an Archive: A Meditation on Imprisonment -- 17. Some Comments on the Gradual Inclusion of Musics beyond the Western Canon by Selected Universities and Societies -- 18. Ethnomusicology in Australia and New Zealand: A Trans‑Tasman Identity? -- Publications by Stephen A. Wild -- Contributors -- Index.

Ranging in scope from the musicological to the anthropological--from technical musical analyses to observations of the sociocultural context of music--these essays reflect not only on the varied and cross-disciplinary nature of Stephen A. Wild's work, but on the many facets of ethnomusicology today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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