Planning for Sustainability of the National Indigenous Recording Project: a pilot project. This pilot project lays the essential groundwork for Yothu Yindi Foundation to carry out the National Recording Project for Indigenous Music, which will aim to record, document and archive today's leading performers of traditional music across Australia. Through workshops and community consultations, the pilot project will allow the Chief Investigators to collaborate with YYF to develop appropriate recordi ....Planning for Sustainability of the National Indigenous Recording Project: a pilot project. This pilot project lays the essential groundwork for Yothu Yindi Foundation to carry out the National Recording Project for Indigenous Music, which will aim to record, document and archive today's leading performers of traditional music across Australia. Through workshops and community consultations, the pilot project will allow the Chief Investigators to collaborate with YYF to develop appropriate recording and documentation methods that are sensitive to indigenous priorities and conformant with international best practice.Read moreRead less
Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye. This project will produce authoritative, thorough and archivally sound musicological and linguistic documentation of one of Australia's most vibrant indigenous song traditions, the public dance songs of Murrinhpatha people at Wadeye, NT. We will work with traditional owners to document three song genres (Dhanba, Wurlthirri, and Malkarrin) in the light of their historical and contemporary interrelationships with other local ....Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye. This project will produce authoritative, thorough and archivally sound musicological and linguistic documentation of one of Australia's most vibrant indigenous song traditions, the public dance songs of Murrinhpatha people at Wadeye, NT. We will work with traditional owners to document three song genres (Dhanba, Wurlthirri, and Malkarrin) in the light of their historical and contemporary interrelationships with other local genres. More broadly, we will assess the song corpus as endangered cultural heritage of national and international significance, and will develop and apply appropriate electronic media interfaces to ensure longterm conservation and accessibility of the research within the community and outside.Read moreRead less