Content tagged with Music

Treaty - Yothu Yindi

This blog post reflects on how the repatriation of sound recordings from the Waterman Collection, held in the AIATSIS Collection, inspired the...

Blog post - 20 Jun 2019

The difference identity makes: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian Cultural Fields

Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up...

Publication or resource - 23 May 2019

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Warupaw uu (The Echo of the Drums)

You are listening to the echo of the drums, connecting you across the bridge in time… This is warupa uu “the echo of the drums…” (Ephraim...

Blog post - 1 Aug 2018

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A Larrakia - Filipino Love Story

Poster, Keep him my heart: a Larrakia-Filipino love story, a play by Gary Lee, Darwin High School Tank, August 1993. Designer: Gary Lee, MS 5025...

Blog post - 3 Jul 2018

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Hearing Histories of the western Pilbara seminar

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Video - 17 Nov 2017

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The Importance of Songs and Dances of Torres Strait

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Video - 23 Oct 2017

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Audiovisual Heritage of Torres Strait Singing and Dancing

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage raises awareness about the importance and vulnerability of audiovisual collections. It is predicted that the...

Blog post - 17 Oct 2017

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My Brown Skin Baby: The first anthem of the Stolen Generation

Bob Randall in 1971. Image from the AIATSIS Collection IDENTITY.003.BW-N05709_12a ‘Tjilpi’ Bob Randall (1934-2015) was a Yankunytjatjara...

Blog post - 4 Apr 2017

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Song for the Gurindji

Cover for The Gurindji Blues AIATSIS Call No: In process The efforts of the Gurindji to reclaim their ancestral land became one of the...

Blog post - 10 Aug 2016

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Gurindji Blues

Poor bugger me, Gurindji Me bin sit down this country Long time before Lord Vestey Allabout land belongin' to we Oh poor bugger...

Video - 10 Aug 2016

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Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2016

Abstracts Homelessness, homelands, human rights — Anita Heiss This paper is an edited version of the Human Rights Oration presented at the...

Publication or resource - 4 Jul 2016

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Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2015

Abstracts for Issue 1, 2015 Cultural strength: restoring the place of indigenous knowledge in practice and policy Taiaiake Alfred Indigenous...

Publication or resource - 21 Jul 2015

Culture Indigenous knowledge Justice Health The Dreaming Music

Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 2, 2005

Abstracts for Issue 2, 2005 We got our own management’: local knowledge, government and development in Cape York Peninsula Benjamin Richard...

Publication or resource - 16 Feb 2015

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Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 2, 2007

Abstracts for Issue 2, 2007 Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song Allan Marett and Linda Barwick Song brings language and...

Publication or resource - 16 Feb 2015

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A Walbiri Fire Ceremony: Ngatjakula

Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire to inflict real and symbolic punishment on those...