Indigenous Music

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
ALTER, Andrew	Dancing with the Gods: power and meaning in the music of Garhwal, North India	PhD	Monash University	2000	423 + CD
ALTER, Andrew Burton	Hindustani vocal music: a case study of oral transmission	MMus	University of Adelaide	1989	281
AMIR, Iwan Dzulvan	Sing, Adapt, Persevere: Dynamics of Traditional Vocal Performances in the Islamic Region of Aceh from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century	PhD	Monash University	NiC2005	NiC
ANDERSON, Gregory	Murlarra: a clan song series from central Arnhem Land	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	920 + 2 cass + vid
Anon	The composition process in the music of Bharatanatyam (a South Indian Classical dance form).	PhD	Macquarie University	in progress (2007)
Anon	Tuvalu: an Ethnomusicological Survey.	PhD	University of New England	in progress (2007)
Anon	The significance and performance practice of Mantra in Buddhism of the Vajrayana	PhD	University of Auckland	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Otse Mbaka: An investigation into cultural loss, recuperation and ownership in North Central Namibia	DCA	Deakin University	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Female Australian Aboriginal songwriters/performers	MMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Metaphor in songs of the Kewa people of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea	MMus	University of NSW	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	The power of oral tradition in the transmission of faith: a study of Same in two areas of the Western District of Fiji	MMus	University of NSW	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	The music of Chinese communities in Indonesia	MMus	University of Sydney	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Vietnamese model systems	GradDipMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	The relationship between traditional Viet folk songs and traditional Viet culture	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Semiotic aspects of music and dance in Ghana	PhD	University of New England	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Low-Country drumming of Sri Lanka.	PhD	University of Canterbury	in progress (2006)
Anon	Music of Nepalese Festivals in Migration and Its Social and Musical Implications, in Singapore	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2015)
BARNEY, Katelyn	Playing Musical Hopscotch: How Indigenous Australian Women Perform Around, Within and Against Aboriginalism	PhD	University of Queensland	2006	309 + CD
BASILE, Christopher	Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song	PhD	Monash University	2005	342
BENDRUPS, Daniel E	Continuity in adaptation: a history of Rapanui [Easter Island] music	PhD	Macquarie University	2005	405 + 3 CDs
BENIUK, David	Contemporary aboriginal songs and songwriters : post-colonialism, categorisation and orality	MA (Hons)	University of Wollongong	1995	98
BERDON-GEORUSA, Racquel	Where Heaven and Earth meet: The buklog of the Subanen in Zamboanga Peninsula, Western Mindanao, the Philippines	PhD	University of Melbourne	2004	256
BLACK, Helen	Sere dina ni Lotu Wesele e Viti: "True Songs" The history, culture and music of Fijian Methodist Indigenous liturgy	PhD	Australian National University	2010	238 + 1 CD
BLACK, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
BLANCH, Faye Rosas	Nunga rappin [manuscript] : talkin the talk, walkin the walk ; young Nunga males and education	MA	Flinders University	2008	168
BRADLEY, Margaret	Kacapi siter and kacapi perahu : two major contributors to the development of Sundanese musical styles in West Java, Indonesia	MMus	University of NSW	1993	157
BUTCHER, Judith M	The introduction of the music of ethnic minority groups into Queensland State schools	MA	University of Queensland	1977	78
CAINGLET, Enrique Cantel	Hispanic influences on the West Visayan folk song tradition of the Philippines	PhD	University of Adelaide	1981	2 vol
CAMPBELL, Genevieve	Ngarukuruwala - we sing: the songs of the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	436
CATTERMOLE, Jennifer Anne	Sere ni cumu: a localised music tradition on Taveuni, Fiji	PhD	Macquarie University	2007	952 + 1 CD
CHAPMAN, Christopher Adam	Regional traditions of Lao vocal music lam siphandon and khap ngeum	PhD	Monash University	2003	463 + CD
CHEN, Pauline	Cao Zheng: master of the Zheng	MMus	University of Sydney	1992	60
CHEN, Sarah Yi-Ying	A study of the Sheng	MMus	University of Sydney	1994	77
CHENG, Lancini Jen-Hao	Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal musical instruments	PhD	University of Otago	2014	989
CHENOWETH, Vida	The music of the Usarufas	PhD	University of Auckland	1974	2 vol
COLE, Malcolm A	Tropical Sounds: A Music Education History of Cairns and Yarrabah: 1930 to 1970	PhD	James Cook University	2014
COUNSEL, Graeme	The influence of the jali tradition on post-colonial and contemporary West African popular music	MMus	University of Melbourne	1999	118
DAVISON, Michael	Didjeridu journey	MCA	University of Newcastle	2005	54
DE FERRANTI, Hugh	Text and music in biwa narrative : the zatô biwa tradition of Kyushu	PhD	University of Sydney	1996	359 + 215 + tape
de JONG, Holly	Continuity and change : some aspects of Ethiopian music in Australia	MMus	University of Melbourne	2011	126
DENG, Wei	Historical and stylistic development in the Chinese four-stringed lute pipa and in pipa music from 1800 to 1995 : with particular reference to "Spring River"	PhD	Queensland University of Technology	1996	519
DONAGHY, Joseph Keola	The language is the music : perceptions of authority and authenticity in Hawaiian language composition and vocal performance	PhD	University of Otago	2011	443
DONALDSON, Tony	The Shaping of a Sundanese music and dance tradition: an ethnomusicological study of Pa Enoch Atmadibrata, Pa Atik Supandi, and Pa Endo Suanda	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	1994	132
DONALDSON, Tony	The Kavikāra Maḍuva : ritual singers in the Daḷadā Māḷigāva (Temple of the Tooth), Kandy	PhD	Monash University	2001	378
DONOHOE, Patricia Mary	Breath of Dirima: a research project [Papua New Guinea]	MMus	University of NSW	1987	340
DR?PPEL, Birgit R.	Music, tradition, and mission: a musical ethnography of the Kaulong of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Auckland	1998	293
EVANS, Samuel	Representing tabla music : defining an effective notation system for Indian tabla repertoire	MA	Monash University	2010	105 + DVD
FAIGEN, Sandra	Women's music in rituals in the Bhojpuri region of North India	MA	Monash University	1982	217
FALK, Catherine Arundel	The tarawangsa tradition in the Priangan, West Java	PhD	Monash University	1980	593
FURLAN, Alberto	Songs of continuity and change: the reproduction of Aboriginal culture through traditional and popular music	PhD	University of Sydney	2005	440
GENOVA, Vincent Anthony	Torres Strait island music: A cantometric study	PhD	Overseas	1991	379
GEORGE, Effy	The Sorathiya Rabari : women's instrumentality in the culture of a pastoral caste	PhD	LaTrobe University	2004	421
GILLESPIE, Kirsty Jane	Steep Slopes : song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea	PhD	Australian National University	2007	282 + CD
GLAMUZINA, Kaye L	Contemporary music and performance practice in Levuka	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	217 + cass
GOLDSWORTHY, David J	Melayu music of North Sumatra: continuities and change	PhD	Monash University	1979	618
GRAVES, Randin Christopher	Cultural foundation of the Yidaki in Northeast Arnhem Land	MA	Charles Darwin University	2006	130
GUMMOW, Margaret	Aboriginal songs from the Bundjalung and Gidabal areas of South-Eastern Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	555 + cass
HARRISON, Gregory	The dialectics and aesthetics of freedom: Hegel, slavery and African American music	PhD	University of Sydney	1999	463
HAYWARD, Philip	Music at the borders: Not Drowning, Waving and their engagement with Papua New Guinean culture (1986-94)	PhD	Macquarie University	1996	362
HODGSON, Robin	The songmen [manuscript] : a comparative study of the relations between song style, society and the social role of performers in Aboriginal Australia	unknown	Charles Darwin University	1990	101 + maps
HOSSAIN, Amzad	Religion of songs: the religious beliefs and practices of the Bauls of Bangladesh	MA	Deakin University	1990	253
HURWORTH, Greg J.	An exploratory study of the music of the Yami of Botel Tobago, Taiwan	PhD	Monash University	1995	2 vol
INGRAM, Catherine	Hwun hwun jon ka ("Listen") : Kam villagers singing big song in early twenty-first-century China	PhD	University of Melbourne	2010	614 + 1 CD + 1 DVD
JONES, T.A.	Arnhem Land music	MA	University of Sydney	1958 NiC	Unknown
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
KEOGH, Ray	Nurlu songs of the west Kimberleys	PhD	University of Sydney	1990	287
KITLEY, Yvonne	Music in the Wayang Parwa of Bali	M.Litt	University of New England	1995	152
KOEPKE, Bruce	Religious dance traditions in Dardistan (northern Pakistan): a preliminary analysis of selected dances of the Kalasha, and of the Burushaski- and Shina-speakers	MA	Monash University	1996	194
KOEPKE, Bruce E.	The impact of political Islam on cultural practices in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, during the Taliban era	PhD	Australian National University	2002	371 + 3 CD
KOERBIN, Paul	I am Pir Sultan Abdal : a hermeneutical study of the self-naming tradition (mahlas) in Turkish Alevi lyric song (deyiş)	PhD	University of Western Sydney	2011	430 + 3CDs
KORNHAUSER, Bronia	Kroncong music in urban Java	MA	Monash University	1976	271
KREECK, Ian Stuart	The touch of voyagers: Polynesian and Western influences on the music of southern Papua, 1871-1958	MA	Deakin University	1991	186
LAIRD, Wayne	Drums and drumming in the Cook Islands	MMus	University of Auckland	1982	100
LAURIDSEN, Jan	Musical scales in Australian aboriginal songs: structure and social implications (didjeridu, folksongs)	PhD	Overseas	1983	140
LAWRENCE, Helen Reeves	The material culture of contemporary music performance in Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands	PhD	James Cook University	1993	2 vol + cass
LE, Duy Ngoc Linh	Mon traditional music	MA	Monash University	withdrawn
LEE, Riley	Yearning for the bell: a study of transmission in the shakuhachi honkyoku tradition	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	684
LEWIS, Anthony	Becoming a garamut drummer in Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Sydney	2012
Lê Túân Hùng	Music and socio-political change: a study of đàn tranh music in central and south Vietnam between 1890 and 1990	PhD	Monash University	1990	393
LICKISS ALEO, Angela	The oboe and English horn works of Ross Edwards and his place in Australian music	DMA	Overseas	2016	127
LINDHEIMER, Joel David	I. The didjeridu: From 'dreamtime' to a new emblem of Pan-Australian Aboriginal identity. II. Concerto for violoncello and orchestra	PhD	Overseas	2000	137
LINDSAY, Jennifer	Klasik, kitsch or contempoprary : a study of the Javanese performing arts	PhD	University of Sydney	1985	347
LITTLE, Jeni	The music of Nga pu Toru (Southern Cook Islands)	MMus	University of Auckland	1990	161
LLOYD, Rosemary	The Cook Island imene reo metua and imene tuki	MLitt	University of New England	1994	238
LOWREY, Jill	Yirrkala 1952-53 : a preliminary survey of field recordings of Australian aboriginal music, collected by Richard A. Waterman	MA	Monash University	1972	134
MACKINLAY, Elizabeth	For our mother's song we sing: Yanyuwa women performers and composers of a-nguyulnguyul	PhD	University of Adelaide	1998	551
MACKINLAY, Elizabeth Narelle.	Disturbance and dislocations : understanding teaching and learning experiences in indigenous Australian women's music and dance	PhD	University of Queensland	2003	263
MAGILL, Jonathan Matthew	Cognitive models for the production of polyrhythms by a West African master drummer	MA	LaTrobe University	1995	127
MARSHALL, Anne	Ngapartji-ngapartji :ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience.	PhD	University of Western Sydney	2001	CD Rom
MARSHALL, Deidre Pauline	Change and loss in Yapese musical culture: a study of the impact of colonial and Micronesian cultures on the music and musical life of Yap Islands (Micronesia) from 1903 to 1993, with special reference to the genres of tang and churu	MA	Monash University	1994	121
MARSHALL, Deirdre P.	Lost Souls in a Vast Land. Recontextualising Maori Kapa Haka and the Construction of Home in Melbourne	PhD	University of New England	2003	286
McCARDELL, Antony	Rhythm and melody in Australian Aboriginal songs of the Western Desert.	PhD	University of Western Aust.	1976	356 (2 vol) + maps +
McDONALD, Barry Matthew John	You can dig all you like, you'll never find Aboriginal culture there : relational aspects of the history of the Aboriginal music of New England, New South Wales, 1830-1930	PhD	University of New England	2000	375
McLEAN, Mervyn	Field work in Maori music (a preliminary study)	MA (Hons)	University of Otago	1958	184
McLEAN, Mervyn	Maori chant : a study in ethnomusicology	PhD	University of Otago	1965	477 + 450
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
MEERE, Clare Kuolga	Analysing the music of the Palga people of Highlands Papua New Guinea via the process of recording	MA	Macquarie University	2005	172 + 1 CD
MING-HUI, Ma	A comparison between Chinese "pipa" and Indian "Sitar" in contemporary performance	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	351 + CD + DVD
MOORE, Lynette M.	Songs of the Pakpak of North Sumatra	PhD	Monash University	1985	3 vol
MORA, Manolete	Interpreting utom: an ethnographic account of the musical instrumental practice of the T'boli of Mindanao, Philippines	PhD	Monash University	1990	330

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