Recirculating Songs: Revitalising the Singing Practices of Indigenous Australia
Résumé
Edited by Jim Wafer and Myfany Turpin 426 pp., Hunter Press, 2017, ISBN: 9780994586315, $49.95
Recirculating Songs is a substantial volume, comprised of 17 chapters (plus an introduction and index), by 28 authors, on the documentation and revitalisation of songs and singing practices in Indigenous Australia. The seventeenth of these chapters is a structured and annotated list of colonial-era musical translations of Australian Indigenous songs (Skinner and Wafer). The rest of the contributions approach the matter from a range of disciplinary perspectives including ethnomusicology, anthropology, linguistics, and history. Several of the authors are themselves members of the Indigenous communities whose songs are being considered. Given the number of chapters, an unavoidable weakness of the book is that each contribution is very short and can hardly provide in-depth analysis of the situation it presents. However, it is precisely the number and diversity of chapters that makes Recirculating Songs an important source book for whoever is interested in Indigenous songs and their revitalisation in Australia. The volume brings answers to key questions on the topic: what, how and why.
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