image of person or book cover 9054758514368985872.jpg
This image has been sourced from online.
y separately published work icon My Dear Spencer : The Letters of F.J.Gillen to Baldwin Spencer selected work   correspondence   diary  
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 My Dear Spencer : The Letters of F.J.Gillen to Baldwin Spencer
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'The extraordinary collection of letters has remained unpublished for nearly a century. It sheds vivid light on race relations, social conditions and Aboriginal culture in Central Australia, It also documents a crucial and poorly understood period in the history of anthropology. The book makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of central Australian Aboriginal society, and to current debates concerning land rights.'  (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hyland House , 2001 .
      image of person or book cover 9054758514368985872.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: xvii, 554 p., [22] p. of platesp.
      Description: ill., maps, ports
      Note/s:
      • Published January 1, 2001

      ISBN: 9781864470222

Works about this Work

Central Australian Songs : A History and Reinterpretation of Their Distribution through the Earliest Recordings Jason Gibson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Oceania , July vol. 85 no. 2 2015; (p. 165-182)

'This paper contains a discussion of an unpublished essay by TGH Strehlow concerning the historic wax cylinder recordings of songs from Central Australia made by Walter Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen in 1901. The manuscript, written by Strehlow in 1968, begins with an explanation of the historical context of the song recordings, and the distribution of song and dance traditions across the Australian inland. Strehlow elucidates the content via information imparted to him by a number of Arrernte and Luritja men, who first heard these recordings over 50 years after they were made, in 1960. Their explanation of these songs reveals further information on the diffusion of song verses across vast regions in Central Australia (including Warumungu, Anmatyerr, Arrernte, and Warlpiri country), and the incorporation of European words and themes within altharte (public) songs in which men sing and dance. I have expanded Strehlow's information on Spencer's recordings further with additional information from other ethno-historical sources and my own contemporary fieldwork. Combined, this research deepens the anthropological understanding of some of the earliest ethnographic sound recordings ever made in Australia.'  (Introduction)

Central Australian Songs : A History and Reinterpretation of Their Distribution through the Earliest Recordings Jason Gibson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Oceania , July vol. 85 no. 2 2015; (p. 165-182)

'This paper contains a discussion of an unpublished essay by TGH Strehlow concerning the historic wax cylinder recordings of songs from Central Australia made by Walter Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen in 1901. The manuscript, written by Strehlow in 1968, begins with an explanation of the historical context of the song recordings, and the distribution of song and dance traditions across the Australian inland. Strehlow elucidates the content via information imparted to him by a number of Arrernte and Luritja men, who first heard these recordings over 50 years after they were made, in 1960. Their explanation of these songs reveals further information on the diffusion of song verses across vast regions in Central Australia (including Warumungu, Anmatyerr, Arrernte, and Warlpiri country), and the incorporation of European words and themes within altharte (public) songs in which men sing and dance. I have expanded Strehlow's information on Spencer's recordings further with additional information from other ethno-historical sources and my own contemporary fieldwork. Combined, this research deepens the anthropological understanding of some of the earliest ethnographic sound recordings ever made in Australia.'  (Introduction)

Last amended 17 Nov 2017 09:10:25
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X