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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Singing The Land: The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life
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'For the Indigenous people of Australia, songs and dances, have encoded their history and religion, their social organisation, and their connectedness to the land for 60,000 years. As research assistant to the eminent musicologist Alice Moyle, and later on her own behalf, Jill Stubington spent many years between 1960 and 1980 in remote regions of Australia learning to listen to this music, to understand its complexity, its central role in identity, social cohesion, celebration and the resolution of family conflict. From 1960 new sound and film equipment widened the opportunities for recording; and soon the guitar and recorded popular music began to intermingle with the traditional styles. It became a matter of urgency to use the new technology to preserve the old culture. In three sections the book details the diverse culture, its musical instruments and practice; and provides listening guides to the available CDs and notations.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Redfern, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency House , 2007 .
      image of person or book cover 1949180101228383485.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: xvi, 313p.p.
      Description: illus., maps, music, ports
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Raymattja Marika.
      • Includes index.
      • Bibliography: p. 281-304.
      ISBN: 9780980280227 (hbk.), 9780980280234 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Singing the Land : The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life. Grace Koch , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2008; (p. 116-117)

— Review of Singing The Land: The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life Jill Stubington , 2007 single work criticism

'Nearly 30 years ago, two senior Yolngu lawmen, Mungurrawuy at Yirrkala and Burramarra at Galiwin’ku, independently requested that Jill Stubington publish the results of her research with Alice Moyle ‘in order to teach balanda (non-Aboriginal people) the deep significance of their music’ (p.iii). This book fulfils their wishes, not only for Yolngu music but for many other language groups throughout Australia because it seeks to correlate and to contextualise ethnomusicological research in Australia within the period 1960 to 1980.'  (Introduction)

Big Names Sing The Praises Of Powerful Work Margaret Smith , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 January no. 417 2008; (p. 46)

— Review of Singing The Land: The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life Jill Stubington , 2007 single work criticism
Big Names Sing The Praises Of Powerful Work Margaret Smith , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 January no. 417 2008; (p. 46)

— Review of Singing The Land: The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life Jill Stubington , 2007 single work criticism
[Review Essay] Singing the Land : The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life. Grace Koch , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2008; (p. 116-117)

— Review of Singing The Land: The Power of Performance in Aboriginal Life Jill Stubington , 2007 single work criticism

'Nearly 30 years ago, two senior Yolngu lawmen, Mungurrawuy at Yirrkala and Burramarra at Galiwin’ku, independently requested that Jill Stubington publish the results of her research with Alice Moyle ‘in order to teach balanda (non-Aboriginal people) the deep significance of their music’ (p.iii). This book fulfils their wishes, not only for Yolngu music but for many other language groups throughout Australia because it seeks to correlate and to contextualise ethnomusicological research in Australia within the period 1960 to 1980.'  (Introduction)

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