Songs Dreamings And Ghosts
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Songs Dreamings And Ghosts
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Author : Allan Marett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Songs Dreamings And Ghosts
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Author : Allan Marett
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-17
Songs Dreamings And Ghosts written by Allan Marett and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-17 with Music categories.
A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia's Aboriginal people. Winner of the Stanner Award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies (2006) Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly Region of Northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly 20 years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. With first-hand, in-depth knowledge of Northwest Australia's Aboriginal cultures, Marett provides the reader with a penetrating description and analysis of this compelling musical practice. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and links to a web-based virtual CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text, at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/wanggacd/.
For The Sake Of A Song
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Author : Marett, Allan
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-27
For The Sake Of A Song written by Marett, Allan and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-27 with Music categories.
Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia’s Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa wangga groups, the repertories being named after the ancestral song-giving ghosts of the Marri Tjavin and Marri Ammu people respectively. Framing chapters include discussion of the genre’s social history, musical conventions and the five highly endangered languages in which the songs are composed. The core of the book is a compendium of recordings, transcriptions, translations and explanations of over 150 song items. Thanks to permissions from the composers’ families and a variety of archives and recordists, this corpus includes almost every wangga song ever recorded in the Daly region.
For The Sake Of A Song
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Author : Allan Marett
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-27
For The Sake Of A Song written by Allan Marett and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-27 with Music categories.
Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the song
The Book Of Dreams And Ghosts
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Author : Andrew Lang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-14
The Book Of Dreams And Ghosts written by Andrew Lang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-14 with categories.
Arbuthnot, in his humorous work on Political Lying, commends the Whigs foroccasionally trying the people with "great swingeing falsehoods". When these areonce got down by the populace, anything may follow without difficulty. Excellentlyas this practice has worked in politics (compare the warming-pan lie of 1688), in thetelling of ghost stories a different plan has its merits. Beginning with the commonplace and familiar, and therefore credible, with the thin end of the wedge, in fact, awise narrator will advance to the rather unusual, the extremely rare, the undeniablystartling, and so arrive at statements which, without this discreet and gradualinitiation, a hasty reader might, justly or unjustly, dismiss as "great swingeingfalsehoods".The nature of things and of men has fortunately made this method at once easy, obvious, and scientific. Even in the rather fantastic realm of ghosts, the stories fallinto regular groups, advancing in difficulty, like exercises in music or in a foreignlanguage. We therefore start from the easiest Exercises in Belief, or even fromthose which present no difficulty at all. The defect of the method is that easystories are dull reading. But the student can "skip". We begin with common everynight dreams
Ethnomusicology A Contemporary Reader Volume Ii
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Author : Jennifer C. Post
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-20
Ethnomusicology A Contemporary Reader Volume Ii written by Jennifer C. Post and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Music categories.
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study of ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century, offering an introduction to contemporary issues relevant to the field. Nineteen essays, written by an international array of scholars, highlight the relationship between current issues in the discipline and ethnomusicologists’ engagement with issues such as advocacy, poverty and social participation, maintaining intangible cultural heritages, and ecological concerns. It provides a forum for rethinking the discipline’s identity in terms of major themes and issues to which ethnomusicologists have turned their attention since Volume I published in 2005. The collection of essays is organized into six sections: Property and Rights Applied Practice Knowledge and Agency Community and Social Space Embodiment and Cognition Curating Sound Volume II serves as a basic introduction to the best writing in the field for students, professors, and music professionals, perfect for both introductory and upper level courses in world music. Together with the first volume, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides a comprehensive survey of current research directions.
Language Music And The Brain
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Author : Michael A. Arbib
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-06-28
Language Music And The Brain written by Michael A. Arbib and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with Science categories.
A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme. The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain. Contributors Francisco Aboitiz, Michael A. Arbib, Annabel J. Cohen, Ian Cross, Peter Ford Dominey, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Leonardo Fogassi, Jonathan Fritz, Thomas Fritz, Peter Hagoort, John Halle, Henkjan Honing, Atsushi Iriki, Petr Janata, Erich Jarvis, Stefan Koelsch, Gina Kuperberg, D. Robert Ladd, Fred Lerdahl, Stephen C. Levinson, Jerome Lewis, Katja Liebal, Jônatas Manzolli, Bjorn Merker, Lawrence M. Parsons, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, David Poeppel, Josef P. Rauschecker, Nikki Rickard, Klaus Scherer, Gottfried Schlaug, Uwe Seifert, Mark Steedman, Dietrich Stout, Francesca Stregapede, Sharon Thompson-Schill, Laurel Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Paul Verschure
Is Birdsong Music
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Author : Hollis Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Is Birdsong Music written by Hollis Taylor and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with Nature categories.
“A ground-breaking study of the songs of the pied butcherbird . . . intellectually engaging and also very entertaining as a fieldwork memoir.” —The Music Trust How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized for their distinct timbre, calls, and songs, both sexes of this songbird sing in duos, trios, and even larger choirs, transforming their flute-like songs annually. While birdsong has long inspired artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers, and enthralled listeners from all walks of life, researchers from the sciences have dominated its study. As a field musicologist, Taylor spends months each year in the Australian outback recording the songs of the pied butcherbird and chronicling their musical activities. She argues persuasively in these pages that their inventiveness in song surpasses biological necessity, compelling us to question the foundations of music and confront the remarkably entangled relationship between human and animal worlds. Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird. “Hollis Taylor has given us one of the most serious books ever written on animal music. Is Birdsong Music? is so engaging that all who care about humanity’s place on Earth should read it. We are certainly not the only musicians on this planet.” —David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing
Music Dance And The Archive
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Author : Amanda Harris
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
Music Dance And The Archive written by Amanda Harris and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Music categories.
Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival records of music and dance. Through artistic methods drawn from Indigenous methodologies, dance studies and song practices, the contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. The book’s nine chapters are written by song and dance practitioners, curators, music and dance historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists, who explore music and dance by Indigenous people from the West, far north and southeast of the Australian continent, and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Taiwan and Turtle Island (North America). Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical practices of access to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives. It not only examines colonial archiving practices but also creative and provocative efforts to redefine the role of archives and to bring them into dialogue with contemporary creative work. Through varied contributions the book seeks to destabilise the very definition of “archives” and to imagine the different forms in which cultural knowledge can be held for current and future Indigenous stakeholders. Music, Dance and the Archive highlights the necessity of relationships, Country and creativity in practising song and dance, and in revitalising practices that have gone out of use.
Circulating Cultures
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Author : Amanda Harris
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Circulating Cultures written by Amanda Harris and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Social Science categories.
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer; and the indigenisation of symbolic meanings in heavy metal music. Circulating Cultures crosses disciplinary boundaries, with contributions from historians, musicologists, linguists and dance historians, to depict shifts of cultural materials through time, place and interventions from people. It looks at the way Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing arts have changed through intercultural influence and collaboration.