Indigenous Music

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
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)
LE, Duy Ngoc Linh	Mon traditional music	MA	Monash University	withdrawn
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)
Moyle, Alice M.	A comparative study of the metrical structure of North Australian Aboriginal songs	PhD	Monash University	withdrawn 1969
COLE, Malcolm A	Tropical Sounds: A Music Education History of Cairns and Yarrabah: 1930 to 1970	PhD	James Cook University	2014
LEWIS, Anthony	Becoming a garamut drummer in Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Sydney	2012
THORPE, Wayne	Watbalimba : language of song, story and dance.	M.Ed	Monash University	2011
WEIGHTMAN, Monica	The dancing brolga: a musical journey of deepening connection to identity	MA	Monash University	2013
Anon	Music of Nepalese Festivals in Migration and Its Social and Musical Implications, in Singapore	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2015)
RADTKE, Kurt Werner	Yuan sanqu : a study of the prosody and structure of Xiaoling contained in the Sanqu anthology Yangchun baixue compiled by Yang Chaoying	PhD	Australian National University	1974	1 vol
LAIRD, Wayne	Drums and drumming in the Cook Islands	MMus	University of Auckland	1982	100
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
EVANS, Samuel	Representing tabla music : defining an effective notation system for Indian tabla repertoire	MA	Monash University	2010	105 + DVD
TURNER, Ashley Maxwell	Duri-dana music and hoho songs in South Nias	PhD	Monash University	1984	117
COUNSEL, Graeme	The influence of the jali tradition on post-colonial and contemporary West African popular music	MMus	University of Melbourne	1999	118
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
de JONG, Holly	Continuity and change : some aspects of Ethiopian music in Australia	MMus	University of Melbourne	2011	126
MAGILL, Jonathan Matthew	Cognitive models for the production of polyrhythms by a West African master drummer	MA	LaTrobe University	1995	127
LICKISS ALEO, Angela	The oboe and English horn works of Ross Edwards and his place in Australian music	DMA	Overseas	2016	127
GRAVES, Randin Christopher	Cultural foundation of the Yidaki in Northeast Arnhem Land	MA	Charles Darwin University	2006	130
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
SOLOMONA, Telesia	Teuila : an ethnography of Samoan music and identity	MA	University of Otago	2009	133
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
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
PAPESCH, Te Rita Bernadette	"Pupuritia ngā purapura i mahue mai rā: : te waiata-ā-ringa, 1960-1990	MAMaori	University of Waikato	1990	139
LAURIDSEN, Jan	Musical scales in Australian aboriginal songs: structure and social implications (didjeridu, folksongs)	PhD	Overseas	1983	140
PRIOR, Aaron	Na suklit : Benicio Sokkong and the bamboo musical instruments of the Kalinga	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2011	151
KITLEY, Yvonne	Music in the Wayang Parwa of Bali	M.Litt	University of New England	1995	152
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
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
SURI, Ellison	Indigenizing Christian forms in worship: a perspective from the Lau region of Malaita, Solomon Islands	MTheol.	University of Otago	1991	158
LITTLE, Jeni	The music of Nga pu Toru (Southern Cook Islands)	MMus	University of Auckland	1990	161
RUDOLPH, Anne	The Gaikyoku repertoire of the Shakuhachi	MA	Monash University	1989	162
WHEELER, Nicholas John	Musics of the ethnic minorities of China: an annotated bibliography of articles published in Chinese periodicals	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	1992	162
BLANCH, Faye Rosas	Nunga rappin [manuscript] : talkin the talk, walkin the walk ; young Nunga males and education	MA	Flinders University	2008	168
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
NAPIER, John J.	The introduction and use of the harmonium in North Indian classical music	MMus	University of NSW	1994	174
SUSILO, Joko	The solo style of Javanese all-night shadow puppet performance: a comparison of traditional and contemporary forms	MA	University of Otago	1996	179
McLEAN, Mervyn	Field work in Maori music (a preliminary study)	MA (Hons)	University of Otago	1958	184
KREECK, Ian Stuart	The touch of voyagers: Polynesian and Western influences on the music of southern Papua, 1871-1958	MA	Deakin University	1991	186
NUNEZ-DURAN, Carmen	The music of Rapanui (Easter Island's music) : a research project	MMus	University of NSW	1988	187
WEI, Deng	Historical development of the pipa [Chinese Lute]	MMus	University of Tasmania	1987	192
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
CAINGLET, Enrique Cantel	Hispanic influences on the West Visayan folk song tradition of the Philippines	PhD	University of Adelaide	1981	2 vol
HURWORTH, Greg J.	An exploratory study of the music of the Yami of Botel Tobago, Taiwan	PhD	Monash University	1995	2 vol
POND, Wendy	Faiva: trials of skill: the song and dance of Tongan politics, 1773-1993	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	1995	2 vol
SPEARRITT, Gordon Donald	The music of the Iatmul people of the Middle Sepik River (Papua New Guinea): with special reference to instrumental music of Kandangai and Aibom	PhD	University of Queensland	1980	2 vol
CHENOWETH, Vida	The music of the Usarufas	PhD	University of Auckland	1974	2 vol
MOYLE, Richard M	Samoan traditional music	PhD	University of Auckland	1971	2 vol
LAWRENCE, Helen Reeves	The material culture of contemporary music performance in Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands	PhD	James Cook University	1993	2 vol + cass
FAIGEN, Sandra	Women's music in rituals in the Bhojpuri region of North India	MA	Monash University	1982	217
GLAMUZINA, Kaye L	Contemporary music and performance practice in Levuka	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	217 + cass
LLOYD, Rosemary	The Cook Island imene reo metua and imene tuki	MLitt	University of New England	1994	238
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
HOSSAIN, Amzad	Religion of songs: the religious beliefs and practices of the Bauls of Bangladesh	MA	Deakin University	1990	253
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
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
KORNHAUSER, Bronia	Kroncong music in urban Java	MA	Monash University	1976	271
SAN ROQUE, Craig	Intoxication : 'facts about the black snake, songs about the cure' : an exploration in inter cultural communication through the Sugarman Project	PhD	University of Western Sydney	1998	276 + video
ALTER, Andrew Burton	Hindustani vocal music: a case study of oral transmission	MMus	University of Adelaide	1989	281
GILLESPIE, Kirsty Jane	Steep Slopes : song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea	PhD	Australian National University	2007	282 + CD
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
KEOGH, Ray	Nurlu songs of the west Kimberleys	PhD	University of Sydney	1990	287
SALISBURY, Kevin Bruce	Pukapukan people and their music	MA	University of Auckland	1983	289 + cass
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
OTTOSSON, Ase-Britt Charlotta	Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	PhD	Australian National University	2006	294
RYAN, Robin	Koori sociomusical practice in Melbourne since 1988	MA	Monash University	1992	3 microfiches
MOORE, Lynette M.	Songs of the Pakpak of North Sumatra	PhD	Monash University	1985	3 vol
PUGH-KITINGAN, Jacqueline	An ethnomusicological study of the Huli of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Queensland	1981	3 vol
STUBINGTON, Jill	Yolngu Manikay : modern performances of Australian aboriginal clan songs	PhD	Monash University	1978	3 vol
YORK, Frank A.	Ngai lag Iama : music and musical practices of Yam Island, Torres Strait	PhD	James Cook University	1998	3 vol
MOYLE, Alice M	North Australian music: a taxonomic approach to the study of Aboriginal song performances	PhD	Monash University	1974	3 vol + cass
BARNEY, Katelyn	Playing Musical Hopscotch: How Indigenous Australian Women Perform Around, Within and Against Aboriginalism	PhD	University of Queensland	2006	309 + CD
MORA, Manolete	Interpreting utom: an ethnographic account of the musical instrumental practice of the T'boli of Mindanao, Philippines	PhD	Monash University	1990	330
DONOHOE, Patricia Mary	Breath of Dirima: a research project [Papua New Guinea]	MMus	University of NSW	1987	340
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
BASILE, Christopher	Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song	PhD	Monash University	2005	342
WANG, Yu Yan	Chaozhou daluogu perfromance, repertoire, instruments, technique, transmission and sustainability in an ancient Chinese percussion genre	DMA	Griffith University	2011	345
LINDSAY, Jennifer	Klasik, kitsch or contempoprary : a study of the Javanese performing arts	PhD	University of Sydney	1985	347
MING-HUI, Ma	A comparison between Chinese "pipa" and Indian "Sitar" in contemporary performance	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	351 + CD + DVD
RYAN, Robin	'A spiritual sound, a lonely sound': leaf music of South-eastern Aboriginal Australians 1890s-1990s	PhD	Monash University	1999	354 + cass
McCARDELL, Antony	Rhythm and melody in Australian Aboriginal songs of the Western Desert.	PhD	University of Western Aust.	1976	356 (2 vol) + maps +
DE FERRANTI, Hugh	Text and music in biwa narrative : the zatô biwa tradition of Kyushu	PhD	University of Sydney	1996	359 + 215 + tape
HAYWARD, Philip	Music at the borders: Not Drowning, Waving and their engagement with Papua New Guinean culture (1986-94)	PhD	Macquarie University	1996	362
SCOTT-MAXWELL, Aline	The dynamics of the Yogyakarta gamelan music tradition	PhD	Monash University	1993	366
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
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
TOKITA, Alison	The narrative tradition in Japanese music: kiyomoto-bushi as an accompaniment of kabuki dance	PhD	Monash University	1989	375
DONALDSON, Tony	The Kavikāra Maḍuva : ritual singers in the Daḷadā Māḷigāva (Temple of the Tooth), Kandy	PhD	Monash University	2001	378
SARMAST, Ahmad	A survey of the history of music in Afghanistan, from ancient times to 2000 A.D., with special reference to art music from c.1000 A.D.	PhD	Monash University	2004	378

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