Balgo : the musical life of a desert community / by Richard Moyle
- Bib ID:
- 65458
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Moyle, Richard M. (Richard Michael)
- Description:
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- Nedlands, W.A. : Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME), 1997
- 195 p. : ill., maps, music ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0864225652
- Summary:
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Based on fieldwork at Balgo between 1975 and 1982; comprehensive ethnographical analysis of musical and ceremonial life of the Balgo community; gives history of Balgo, origin of name; discusses musical characteristics, pitch, melody, instruments, song origins, poetry; discusses location and extent of Balgo's exchange of rituals with other communities; maps of Kukatja and neighbouring groups, Kukatja country as seen by Kukatja people, contact history; performance calendar; analysis of social structure and ceremonial ownership; detailed transcription, notation and analysis of selected songs; outlines men's and women's initiation rituals; dreaming tracks.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography.
- Subject:
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- Kukatja (Australian people) -- Music
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Balgo -- Music
- Songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Balgo
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Settlement and contacts
- Music - Musicology - Ethnomusicology
- Kukatja language (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Music - Analysis
- Music - Notations
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Religion - Rites
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Music - Vocal - Group - Children
- Music - Vocal
- Music - Vocal - Origins
- Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Jigalong (WA East Pilbara SF51-13)
- Lajamanu / Hooker Creek (Central NT SE52-08, SE52-12)
- Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
- Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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