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WINNER OF THE 2022 MANDER JONES AWARD
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鈥檚 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 鈥渁rchives鈥� 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.
Amanda Harris is an ARC Future Fellow at 宅男导航 Conservatorium of Music, The University of 宅男导航 and Director of the 宅男导航 Unit of PARADISEC. Linda Barwick is a musicologist collaborating with First Nations communities in Australia since 1985 and Italian communities since 1979. She is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of 宅男导航, 宅男导航 Conservatorium of Music.
Jakelin Troy (Jaky) is Ngarigu of the Snowy Mountains, called by Jaky鈥檚 community Kunama Namadgi, in south-eastern Australia. She is Director, Indigenous Research at the University of 宅男导航 and founded the 宅男导航 Indigenous Research Network.
List of figures 1 Embodied culture and the limits of the archive (doi: ) Reuben Brown and Solomon Nangamu 3 Ruatepupuke II: M膩ori meeting house in a museum (doi: ) Genevieve Campbell, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Amanda Harris and Matt Poll 5 The body is an archive: Collective memory, ancestral knowledge, culture and history (doi: ) Clint Bracknell 7 Authenticity and illusion: Performing M膩ori and P膩keh膩 in the early twentieth century (doi: ) Chi-Fang Chao 9 Mermaids and cockle shells: Innovation and tradition in the 鈥淒iyama鈥� song of Arnhem Land (doi:
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The contributors
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CRICOS number: 00026A