- Title
- A checklist of colonial era musical transcriptions of Australian Indigenous songs
- Creator
- Skinner, Graeme; Wafer, Jim
- Relation
- Recirculating Songs: Revitalising the Singing Practices of Indigenous Australia p. 360-404
- Relation
- https://hunterpress.bigcartel.com/product/recirculating-songs-revitalising-the-singing-practices-of-indigenous-australia
- Publisher
- Hunter Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This checklist is intended as a basic resource guide for those who wish to explore the revitalisation of Indigenous song traditions using colonial era documentation of ancestral songs, in the form of written musical transcriptions or mechanical recordings made with early sound-capture technology. It includes a range of pertinent data on 113 songs from the colonial era; that is, notionally from first contact to 1 January 1901, though here actually from c.1789 to 1903. For each song, this checklist provides details of the sources and a link to the musical transcription or sound file. As well, it includes the song text and a gloss (where available), further bibliography, and information on likely regional affiliations, both linguistic and musical. These resources will be useful to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people undertaking song revitalisation projects and also to researchers interested in reconstructing the musical profiles of those parts of Indigenous Australia where the ancestral performance traditions suffered severe damage in the colonial era. We are not suggesting that the list is complete or exhaustive; indeed, we hope that by printing it here as a work in progress we might encourage others to look for, and in due course, report on yet more relevant musical survivals. This checklist also serves as a bibliographic appendix to the other chapters in the present volume that are concerned specifically with Australian historical ethnomusicology, in particular those by Skinner (chapter 16), McDonald (chapter 7) and Wafer (chapter 9).
- Subject
- Indigenous Australian music in the colonial era; documentary history of Australian Indigenous song and dance; revitalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander song
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1389872
- Identifier
- uon:32941
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780994586315
- Language
- eng
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