Keeping Time

Keeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in Honour of Linda Barwick explores current issues in ethnomusicology and the archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings.

The 19 chapters by 36 authors consider archiving practices as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities; cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding song; and the role of musical transcription in non-Western music.

This volume is international in scope with case studies with Indigenous and minority peoples from Papua New Guinea, China, India, the Torres Strait and mainland Aboriginal Australia; the latter being the focus of the majority of chapters.

Topics include the revival of songs from early written sources, creation of new songs based in old genres, the concept of “sing” in other languages, spirits as the origin of song knowledge, and how to manage ethnographic records over time. Keeping Time approaches Indigenous practices from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, history and performing arts, as well as Indigenous Studies, cultural revitalisation (including reclamation of Indigenous languages), Indigenous knowledge and application to climate change.

Offered in honour of Emeritus Professor Linda Barwick, the founder of the Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts series, Keeping Time offers a diverse range of opinions on ethnographic research practices and their value to society.

There are 3 audio examples available to be listened to here: https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/keeping_time.html

Amanda Harris is an ARC Future Fellow at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Unit of PARADISEC.

Myfany Turpin is an Associate Professor in ethnomusicology and linguistics at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.

Nick Thieberger is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and the Director of PARADISEC.

Sally Treloyn is an Associate Professor in ethnomusicology and intercultural research in the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne.

• Preface
• 1 Dialogues on Music and Archives: A Tribute to Linda Barwick by Sally Treloyn, Amanda Harris, Nick Thieberger and Myfany Turpin
• Part I Dialogic archiving
• 2 Keeping Time: how the digital repatriation of Western Arnhem Land song traditions deepens their meaning by Nick Evans
• 3 Language and music recordings and the responsible researcher by Nick Thieberger
• 4 The politics of repatriation: communication and consultation in Torres Strait during the True Echoes project by Grace Koch
• 5 Researcher as facilitator: creating space for dialogue on managing archival collections by Catherine Ingram
• 6 Shifting cultural protocols surrounding community-led arts and media projects in Southern Ngaliya Warlpiri region by Georgia Curran
• 7 Dispersed sound archives and diaspora communities – a case study of reconnecting with old recordings from Hula village PNG by Amanda Harris, Steven Gagau, Deveni Temu, Roge Kila and Gulea Kila
• Part II Music and song: Knowing through analysis
• 8 Endangered songs in the Kathmandu Valley: Performance, history and patterns of culture by Richard Widdess
• 9 Agents of song: Exploring the meaning of Arandic verbs of vocal production by Jennifer A. Green and Myfany Turpin
• 10 The Hakhun Buffalo Sacrifice Song by Reis Flora, Khithong Hakhun, Stephen Morey and Jürgen Schöpf
• 11 Music Analysed: 20th Century Ethnomusicology vis-à-vis the Analytical Approaches to Western Music by Marcello Sorce Keller
• 12 Singing Moonfish, hearing Country by Genevieve Campbell with Eustace Tipiloura
• 13 Music analysis, music sustainability, and thrivance: “What can one ‘know’ about any sort of music by means of musical analysis (today)?” by Sally Treloyn and Tiriki Onus
• Part III Dialogic futures
• 14 Karaoke Corroboree: Subtitled music videos and language revitalisation by Clint Bracknell
• 15 Tjendji (Fire) and Tjerri (Sea Breeze). What Indigenous Wisdom has to tell us about the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis by Payi Linda Ford and Allan Marett
• 16 Music as formative social action by Ian Cross
• 17 Daluk Bininj, Ngarri-djarrk-ni/Lovers, Let’s Sit Down Together: Popular Love Songs of Western Arnhem Land by Jodie Kell and Tara Rostram
• 18 Arrungpayarrun ta alan “We’ll follow their path” by Reuben Brown, Isabel O’Keeffe, Ruth Singer, Jenny Manmurulu, Renfred Manmurulu and Rupert Manmurulu

• 19 Singing from the Mountains: when things really go right in Indigenous research a story of creative collaboration and Ngarigu cultural renewal by Jakelin Troy

• Index

“Inspired by the work of scholar and cultural activist Linda Barwick, Keeping Time is essential reading for those working in archiving, musical analysis, Indigenous music and dance research, cultural policy and research ethics.”

– Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology, Emeritus, UCLA

 

“This outstanding volume celebrates the lifelong work of Linda Barwick, including the many ways she has advanced the study, documentation, and archiving of musical artistry, and forged it into dialog with the living continuity of musical creation and performance, in Indigenous Australia and beyond. The contributors to this volume themselves reflect her ongoing influence in this undertaking, giving testimony to her proficiency, insight, and her respectful awareness of people, music, and temporal artistry.”

– Professor Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas

 

Format: paperback
Size: 254 × 187 mm
396 pages
38 figures and bibliographies
Copyright: © 2024
ISBN: 9781743329504
Publication: 01 Nov 2024
Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts