Indigenous Music

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
Anon	Female Australian Aboriginal songwriters/performers	MMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
Anon	Vietnamese model systems	GradDipMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
OTTOSSON, Ase-Britt Charlotta	Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	PhD	Australian National University	2006	294
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
TONER, Peter Gerald	When the echoes are gone: a Yolngu musical anthropology	PhD	Australian National University	2001	386 + 1 CD
GILLESPIE, Kirsty Jane	Steep Slopes : song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea	PhD	Australian National University	2007	282 + CD
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
SHISHIKURA, Masaya	Wanting Memories: Histories, Remembrances and Sentiments Inscribed in Music and Dance of the Ogasawara Islands	PhD	Australian National University	2013	437 +55 + 2 DVD + CD
GRAVES, Randin Christopher	Cultural foundation of the Yidaki in Northeast Arnhem Land	MA	Charles Darwin University	2006	130
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
NEUENFELDT, Karl Wm	Sounding silences : ethnogenesis, ethno-pop music and indigenous peoples	PhD	Curtin University of Technology	1994	461
Anon	Otse Mbaka: An investigation into cultural loss, recuperation and ownership in North Central Namibia	DCA	Deakin University	in progress (NiC08/07)
HOSSAIN, Amzad	Religion of songs: the religious beliefs and practices of the Bauls of Bangladesh	MA	Deakin University	1990	253
KREECK, Ian Stuart	The touch of voyagers: Polynesian and Western influences on the music of southern Papua, 1871-1958	MA	Deakin University	1991	186
RATAWA, Wendy Margaret	Fijian vocal music and the vanua: a field study from Labasa, Vanua Levu	MA	Deakin University	1991	451
BLANCH, Faye Rosas	Nunga rappin [manuscript] : talkin the talk, walkin the walk ; young Nunga males and education	MA	Flinders University	2008	168
WANG, Yu Yan	Chaozhou daluogu perfromance, repertoire, instruments, technique, transmission and sustainability in an ancient Chinese percussion genre	DMA	Griffith University	2011	345
LAWRENCE, Helen Reeves	The material culture of contemporary music performance in Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands	PhD	James Cook University	1993	2 vol + cass
YORK, Frank A.	Ngai lag Iama : music and musical practices of Yam Island, Torres Strait	PhD	James Cook University	1998	3 vol
COLE, Malcolm A	Tropical Sounds: A Music Education History of Cairns and Yarrabah: 1930 to 1970	PhD	James Cook University	2014
GEORGE, Effy	The Sorathiya Rabari : women's instrumentality in the culture of a pastoral caste	PhD	LaTrobe University	2004	421
MAGILL, Jonathan Matthew	Cognitive models for the production of polyrhythms by a West African master drummer	MA	LaTrobe University	1995	127
RICHTER, Martin (Max)	Musical worlds in Jogjakarta : contexts, genres, identities	PhD	LaTrobe University	2006	472 + 7 CDs
Anon	The composition process in the music of Bharatanatyam (a South Indian Classical dance form).	PhD	Macquarie University	in progress (2007)
BENDRUPS, Daniel E	Continuity in adaptation: a history of Rapanui [Easter Island] music	PhD	Macquarie University	2005	405 + 3 CDs
CATTERMOLE, Jennifer Anne	Sere ni cumu: a localised music tradition on Taveuni, Fiji	PhD	Macquarie University	2007	952 + 1 CD
HAYWARD, Philip	Music at the borders: Not Drowning, Waving and their engagement with Papua New Guinean culture (1986-94)	PhD	Macquarie University	1996	362
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
BLACK, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
ALTER, Andrew	Dancing with the Gods: power and meaning in the music of Garhwal, North India	PhD	Monash University	2000	423 + CD
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
BASILE, Christopher	Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song	PhD	Monash University	2005	342
CHAPMAN, Christopher Adam	Regional traditions of Lao vocal music lam siphandon and khap ngeum	PhD	Monash University	2003	463 + CD
DONALDSON, Tony	The Kavikāra Maḍuva : ritual singers in the Daḷadā Māḷigāva (Temple of the Tooth), Kandy	PhD	Monash University	2001	378
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
GOLDSWORTHY, David J	Melayu music of North Sumatra: continuities and change	PhD	Monash University	1979	618
HURWORTH, Greg J.	An exploratory study of the music of the Yami of Botel Tobago, Taiwan	PhD	Monash University	1995	2 vol
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
KORNHAUSER, Bronia	Kroncong music in urban Java	MA	Monash University	1976	271
LE, Duy Ngoc Linh	Mon traditional music	MA	Monash University	withdrawn
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
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
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
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
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	North Australian music: a taxonomic approach to the study of Aboriginal song performances	PhD	Monash University	1974	3 vol + cass
PURBA, Mauly	Musical and functional change in the gondang sabangunan tradition of the protestant Toba Batak 1860s-1990s, with particular reference to the 1980s-1990s	PhD	Monash University	1998	395
ROMET, Cheryl	Children's play songs in the Priangan, West Java	MA	Monash University	1986	514
RUDOLPH, Anne	The Gaikyoku repertoire of the Shakuhachi	MA	Monash University	1989	162
RYAN, Robin	Koori sociomusical practice in Melbourne since 1988	MA	Monash University	1992	3 microfiches
RYAN, Robin	'A spiritual sound, a lonely sound': leaf music of South-eastern Aboriginal Australians 1890s-1990s	PhD	Monash University	1999	354 + cass
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
SCOTT-MAXWELL, Aline	The dynamics of the Yogyakarta gamelan music tradition	PhD	Monash University	1993	366
STUBINGTON, Jill	Yolngu Manikay : modern performances of Australian aboriginal clan songs	PhD	Monash University	1978	3 vol
TAN, Sooi Beng	A social and stylistic history of bangsawan, c.1880-1980: correspondences between social-historical and musical-theatrical change [Maly Opera]	PhD	Monash University	1989	425
TOKITA, Alison	The narrative tradition in Japanese music: kiyomoto-bushi as an accompaniment of kabuki dance	PhD	Monash University	1989	375
TURNER, Ashley Maxwell	Duri-dana music and hoho songs in South Nias	PhD	Monash University	1984	117
WARE, Vicki-Ann	Stylistic and cultural transformations in Bangkok fusion music from 1850 to the present day, leading to the development of Dontri Thai Prayuk	PhD	Monash University	2006	414
Moyle, Alice M.	A comparative study of the metrical structure of North Australian Aboriginal songs	PhD	Monash University	withdrawn 1969
EVANS, Samuel	Representing tabla music : defining an effective notation system for Indian tabla repertoire	MA	Monash University	2010	105 + DVD
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
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
PANGENG, Shen	The traditional Japanese vocal music - Kouta	MA	Swinburne University of Technology	1998	54
ALTER, Andrew Burton	Hindustani vocal music: a case study of oral transmission	MMus	University of Adelaide	1989	281
CAINGLET, Enrique Cantel	Hispanic influences on the West Visayan folk song tradition of the Philippines	PhD	University of Adelaide	1981	2 vol
MACKINLAY, Elizabeth	For our mother's song we sing: Yanyuwa women performers and composers of a-nguyulnguyul	PhD	University of Adelaide	1998	551
Anon	The relationship between traditional Viet folk songs and traditional Viet culture	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (NiC08/07)
STREHLOW, Theodor George Henry	Songs of Central Australia	D.Litt	University of Adelaide	1971	775
Anon	The significance and performance practice of Mantra in Buddhism of the Vajrayana	PhD	University of Auckland	in progress (NiC08/07)
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
LITTLE, Jeni	The music of Nga pu Toru (Southern Cook Islands)	MMus	University of Auckland	1990	161
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
GLAMUZINA, Kaye L	Contemporary music and performance practice in Levuka	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	217 + cass
SALISBURY, Kevin Bruce	Pukapukan people and their music	MA	University of Auckland	1983	289 + cass
VAN WAARDENBERG, Gerald Enno	Songs of Tai Tokerau : an analysis of 135 Northland songs	MMus	University of Auckland	1983	424
LAIRD, Wayne	Drums and drumming in the Cook Islands	MMus	University of Auckland	1982	100
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
PHILLIPS, Irene Margaret Constance	Maori music, a historical survey	MA	University of Auckland	1929	NS
Anon	Low-Country drumming of Sri Lanka.	PhD	University of Canterbury	in progress (2006)
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
COUNSEL, Graeme	The influence of the jali tradition on post-colonial and contemporary West African popular music	MMus	University of Melbourne	1999	118
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
de JONG, Holly	Continuity and change : some aspects of Ethiopian music in Australia	MMus	University of Melbourne	2011	126
Anon	Tuvalu: an Ethnomusicological Survey.	PhD	University of New England	in progress (2007)
KITLEY, Yvonne	Music in the Wayang Parwa of Bali	M.Litt	University of New England	1995	152
LLOYD, Rosemary	The Cook Island imene reo metua and imene tuki	MLitt	University of New England	1994	238
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
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
Anon	Semiotic aspects of music and dance in Ghana	PhD	University of New England	in progress (NiC08/07)
SALISBURY, David	Aspects of musical and social identity in the talempong musical tradition of the Payakumbuh Region, West Sumatra, Indonesia	PhD	University of New England	2000	400
DAVISON, Michael	Didjeridu journey	MCA	University of Newcastle	2005	54
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
Anon	Metaphor in songs of the Kewa people of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea	MMus	University of NSW	in progress (NiC08/07)
DONOHOE, Patricia Mary	Breath of Dirima: a research project [Papua New Guinea]	MMus	University of NSW	1987	340
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)

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