The old songs are always new : singing traditions of the Tiwi Islands /

"Perhaps the most defining feature of Tiwi song is the importance placed on the creative innovation of the individual singer/composer. Tiwi songs are fundamentally new, unique and occasion specific, and yet sit within a continuum of an oral artistic tradition. Performed in ceremony, at public e...

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Autore principale: Campbell, Genevieve Anne (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Gadigal Country, NSW : Sydney University Press, 2023.
Serie:Indigenous music of Australia.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.4418221
Sommario:
  • An introduction to the Islands
  • The archived recordings
  • Singing identity
  • Kulama
  • The Tiwi language(s)
  • The classical Tiwi music
  • Emerging musical genres.