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
Note on cultural sensitivity
Note on terminology
List of figures
List of tables
Audio examples
Foreword
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-ą-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, Lets Sit Down Together: Popular
Love Songs of Western Arnhem Land by Jodie Kell and Tara Rostram
18 Arrungpayarrun ta alan Well follow their path by Reuben Brown, Isabel
OKeeffe, 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
Nick Thieberger is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and the Director of PARADISEC.
Amanda Harris is an ARC Future Fellow at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Unit 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.
Myfany Turpin is an Associate Professor in ethnomusicology and linguistics at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.
