{"title":"Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the rich tapestry of Indigenous music, language, and performing arts through insightful works that delve into cultural expression and identity. This collection offers a thoughtful examination of traditional practices alongside contemporary interpretations, highlighting the profound connections between community, history, and creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will engage with texts that illuminate the philosophy and psychology behind artistic forms, alongside historical perspectives that deepen understanding of Indigenous heritage. 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It also features detailed musical notation by ethnomusicologist Myfany Turpin and includes a foreword by two senior custodians, Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM and Wanta Jampijinpa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342285848812,"sku":"9781743329481","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19196493482808.jpg?v=1772196294"},{"product_id":"vitality-and-change-in-warlpiri-songs-9781743329061","title":"Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWarlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is widespread concern about the transmission of these songs to future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile musical and cultural change is normal, threats to attrition driven by large-scale external forces including sedentarisation and modernisation put strain on the systems of social relationships that have sustained Warlpiri cultures for millennia. Despite these concerns, songs remain key to Warlpiri identity and cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs\u003c\/i\u003e draws together insights from senior Warlpiri singers and custodians of these song traditions, profiling a number of senior singers and their views of the changes that they have witnessed over their lifetimes. The chapters in this book are written by Warlpiri custodians in collaboration with researchers who have worked in Warlpiri communities over the last five decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning interdisciplinary perspectives including musicology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnography and gender studies, chapters range from documentation of well-known and large-scale Warlpiri ceremonies, to detailed analysis of smaller-scale public rituals and the motivations behind newer innovative forms of ceremonial expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately uncovers the complexity entailed in maintaining the vital components of classical Warlpiri singing practices and the deep desires that Warlpiri people have to maintain this important element of their cultural identity into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363330343148,"sku":"9781743329061","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19192293482808.jpg?v=1772920716"},{"product_id":"the-old-songs-are-always-new-by-genevieve-campbell-9781743328750","title":"The Old Songs are Always New","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim these archived songs and song texts. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Songs are Always New\u003c\/i\u003e explores their return home to the Tiwi Islands and reveals that the fundamentally contemporary, topical and current nature of the Tiwi song culture has resulted in the preservation of a rich social, cultural and historical oral record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCampbell describes the melody, rhythm, vocal technique, language, performance context and function of the twelve Tiwi song types, and gives an overview of the language and poetic devices used in song composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384045945068,"sku":"9781743328750","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19189183482808.jpg?v=1773399087"},{"product_id":"keeping-time-9781743329504","title":"Keeping Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in Honour of Linda Barwick\u003c\/em\u003e explores current issues in ethnomusicology and the archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 19 chapters by 36 authors consider archiving practices as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities; 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