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Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr Falk
Prerequisite: Music Cultures of the World - An Introduction or permission of Dean.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week for one semester.
Objectives:
By end of semester, students should
- be able to recognise aurally a variety of different traditional aboriginal musical styles
- be articulate about the musical and contextual characteristics of a variety of traditional aboriginal musical styles
- have a comprehensive understanding of the place of aboriginal music in aboriginal life
- have a working knowledge of the ethnomusicological-scholarship in this area
- have a working understanding of the music of contemporary aboriginal life and its socio-political context.
Content:
A study of the musical styles and contexts of Northeast and Northwest Arnhem Land, The Kimberleys, Central Australia, Torres Strait and Bathurst and Melville Islands, and of the relationship between traditional contexts of music making and contemporary aboriginal musical styles.
Assessment:
Two essays of 3,000 words (40 per cent each), one of which is to be presented as a 30 minute seminar paper during the semester; a transcription and analysis assignment (20 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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