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
AYYAR, Mohan	The composition process in the music of Bharatanatyam (a South Indian Classical dance form).	PhD	Macquarie University	in progress (2007)
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
BEAULIEU, Marc	Tuvalu: an Ethnomusicological Survey.	PhD	University of New England	in progress (2007)
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, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
BOLLEY, Richard	The significance and performance practice of Mantra in Buddhism of the Vajrayana	PhD	University of Auckland	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
BRASCHE, Inga	Otse Mbaka: An investigation into cultural loss, recuperation and ownership in North Central Namibia	DCA	Deakin University	in progress (NiC08/07)
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	Tiwi Song in Historical and Contemporary Practice	PhD	Charles Darwin University	In Progress (2009)
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
CHENOWETH, Vida	The music of the Usarufas	PhD	University of Auckland	1974	2 vol
COUNSEL, Graeme	The influence of the jali tradition on post-colonial and contemporary West African popular music	MMus	University of Melbourne	1999	118
CROWE, Chantal-Marie	Female Australian Aboriginal songwriters/performers	MMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
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
DOHERTY, Peter J.	Metaphor in songs of the Kewa people of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea	MMus	University of NSW	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
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
GRANT, Catherine	Safeguarding endangered musical heritage: The potential of language maintenance approaches to inform the vitality and viability of threatened music cultures	PhD	Griffith University	In progress (2009)
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
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	Fan fan jon ka (listen)? Kam big song [Guizhou Province, China] heard through an ethnography of collision, connection and imagination	PhD	University of Melbourne	in progress (2004)
JONES, Anthony Linden	Beyond the Didjeridu: Representation of Aboriginality in Australian Film Music	MMus	University of Sydney	In progress (2008)
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
KEARSLEY, Helen	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)
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
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 Cooke 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
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
LIM, Vi King	The music of Chinese communities in Indonesia	MMus	University of Sydney	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
MACKLEY-CRUMP, Jared	The Festivalisation of Pasifika Cultures in New Zealand	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2009)
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 + 1 CD
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
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
MOYLE, Alice M	The intervallic structure of Australian Aboriginal singing	MA	University of Sydney	1957	94
MOYLE, Alice M	North Australian music: a taxonomic approach to the study of Aboriginal song performances	PhD	Monash University	1974	3 vol + cass
Moyle, Alice M.	A comparative study of the metrical structure of North Australian Aboriginal songs	PhD	Monash University	withdrawn 1969
MOYLE, Richard M	Samoan traditional music	PhD	University of Auckland	1971	2 vol
NAPIER, John J.	The introduction and use of the harmonium in North Indian classical music	MMus	University of NSW	1994	174
NAPIER, John J.	Sangat : melodic accompaniment in North Indian vocal music	PhD	University of NSW	2001	584
NEUENFELDT, Karl Wm	Sounding silences : ethnogenesis, ethno-pop music and indigenous peoples	PhD	Curtin University of Technology	1994	461
NGUYEN, Chi Dung	Vietnamese model systems	GradDipMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
NGUYEN, Dang Thao	The relationship between traditional Viet folk songs and traditional Viet culture	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (NiC08/07)
NUNEZ-DURAN, Carmen	The music of Rapanui (Easter Island's music) : a research project	MMus	University of NSW	1988	187
OTTOSSON, Ase-Britt Charlotta	Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	PhD	Australian National University	2006	294
PANGENG, Shen	The traditional Japanese vocal music - Kouta	MA	Swinburne University of Technology	1998	54
PAPESCH, Te Rita Bernadette	"Pupuritia ngā purapura i mahue mai rā: : te waiata-ā-ringa, 1960-1990	MAMaori	University of Waikato	1990	139
PAYNE, Helen	Singing a sister's sites: women's land rites in the Australian Musgrave Ranges.	PhD	University of Queensland	1988	NS

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