Music, Dance and the Archive

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1 Embodied culture and the limits of the archive
Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick, Jakelin Troy
2 "I'll show you that manyardi": Memory and lived experience in the performance of public ceremony in western Arnhem Land
Reuben Brown and Solomon Nangamu
3 Ruatepupuke II: Maori meeting house in a museum
Jack Gray and Jacqueline Shea Murphy
4 Animating cultural heritage knowledge through songs: Museums, archives, consultation and Tiwi music
Genevieve Campbell, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Amanda Harris and Matt Poll
5 The body is an archive: Collective memory, ancestral knowledge, culture and history
Rosy Simas
6 Music, dance and the archive: Reanimating 1830s Nyungar songs of Miago
Clint Bracknell
7 Authenticity and illusion: Performing Maori and Pakeha in the early twentieth century
Marianne Schultz
8 Bodies of representation and resistance: Archiving and performingculture through contemporary Indigenous theatre in Taiwan
Chi-Fang Chao
9 Mermaids and cockle shells: Innovation and tradition in the "Diyama" song of Arnhem Land
Jodie Kell and Cindy Jinmarabynana

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Brings together both Australian and international work on Indigenous music and dance, with chapters centred around practices from Arnhem Land, Western Australia, the Tiwi Islands, the Torres Strait, Taiwan, Aotearoa/New Zealand and North America, and Indigenous scholars authoring or co-authoring more than half of the book. Combines practice-led scholarship with research-informed creative practice. Considers music and dance together as often inseparable parts of performance practices, an approach achieved through the interdisciplinarity of its contributing authors. Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical access and responses 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 highlights the relationship between music and dance, as embodied forms of culture, and records in archives, bringing together interdisciplinary research from musicologists, dance historians, linguists, Indigenous Studies scholars and practitioners. The volume examines how music and dance are recorded in audio-visual records, what uses are made of these records (in renewal of cultural practice or in revitalising performances that have fallen out of use), and the relationship between the live body and historical objects. While this book focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and dance, it also features research on Indigenous music and dance from beyond Australia, including New Zealand, Taiwan and North America. Music, Dance and the Archive is an insightful culmination of original, previously unpublished research from a diverse selection of scholars in Indigenous history, musicology, linguistics, archival science and dance history.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music

Music, Dance, and the Archive offers new critical and innovative creative work with archival collections, and… the book carries forward our understandings of historical materials into new fascinating directions.” -- Brian Diettrich

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