The Gift of Song : Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land Hardback
by Reuben Brown
Part of the SOAS Studies in Music series
Hardback
Description
The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land tells the story of the return of physical and digital cultural materials through song and dance.
Drawing on extensive, first-person ethnographic fieldwork in western Arnhem Land, Australia, the book examines how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (Aboriginal people of this region) enact change and innovate their performance practices through ceremonial exchange.
As Indigenous communities worldwide confront new social and environmental challenges, this book addresses the questions: How do Indigenous communities come to terms with legacies of taking and collecting?
How are cultural materials in digital formats received and ritualised?
How do traditional forms of exchange continue to mediate relationships?
Combining ethnomusicological analysis and linguistically- and historically- informed ethnography, this book reveals how multilingualism and musical diversity are maintained through kun-borrk/manyardi, a major genre of Indigenous Australian song and dance.
It re-theorises the core anthropological concept of ‘exchange’ and enriches understanding of repatriation as a process of re-embedding tangible objects through intangible practices of ceremony and language.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, 16 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 48 Halftones, black and wh
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2024
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- ISBN:9781032106366
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, 16 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 48 Halftones, black and wh
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032106366
