Indigenous Music

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
YORK, Frank A.	Ngai lag Iama : music and musical practices of Yam Island, Torres Strait	PhD	James Cook University	1998	3 vol
WOLFFRAM	Langoron : music and dance performance realities among the Lak people of Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	2007	530 + DVD
WHITEHEAD, G	Polynesian musical instruments	MMus	University of Sydney	1966 NiC	unknown
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
WEIGHTMAN, Monica	The dancing brolga: a musical journey of deepening connection to identity	MA	Monash University	2013
WEI, Deng	Historical development of the pipa [Chinese Lute]	MMus	University of Tasmania	1987	192
WATSON, Gary Stephen	Shared intellectual property and the maintenance of cosmic order : an investigation into the significance of melodic sampling and transformation in the creation of new gending in Balinese gamelan music	MMus	University of Sydney	1999	82 + CD
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
WANG, Yu Yan	Chaozhou daluogu perfromance, repertoire, instruments, technique, transmission and sustainability in an ancient Chinese percussion genre	DMA	Griffith University	2011	345
VAN WAARDENBERG, Gerald Enno	Songs of Tai Tokerau : an analysis of 135 Northland songs	MMus	University of Auckland	1983	424
TURPIN, Myfany	Form and meaning of Akwelye: A Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	2005	405
TURNER, Ashley Maxwell	Duri-dana music and hoho songs in South Nias	PhD	Monash University	1984	117
TRELOYN, Sally	Songs that pull: jadmi junba from the Kimberley region of northwest Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	2006	613 + CD
TONER, Peter Gerald	When the echoes are gone: a Yolngu musical anthropology	PhD	Australian National University	2001	386 + 1 CD
TOKITA, Alison	The narrative tradition in Japanese music: kiyomoto-bushi as an accompaniment of kabuki dance	PhD	Monash University	1989	375
THORPE, Wayne	Watbalimba : language of song, story and dance.	M.Ed	Monash University	2011
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
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
SURI, Ellison	Indigenizing Christian forms in worship: a perspective from the Lau region of Malaita, Solomon Islands	MTheol.	University of Otago	1991	158
STUBINGTON, Jill	Yolngu Manikay : modern performances of Australian aboriginal clan songs	PhD	Monash University	1978	3 vol
STREHLOW, Theodor George Henry	Songs of Central Australia	D.Litt	University of Adelaide	1971	775
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
SOLOMONA, Telesia	Teuila : an ethnography of Samoan music and identity	MA	University of Otago	2009	133
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
SCOTT-MAXWELL, Aline	The dynamics of the Yogyakarta gamelan music tradition	PhD	Monash University	1993	366
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
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
SALISBURY, Kevin Bruce	Pukapukan people and their music	MA	University of Auckland	1983	289 + cass
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
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
RUDOLPH, Anne	The Gaikyoku repertoire of the Shakuhachi	MA	Monash University	1989	162
ROMET, Cheryl	Children's play songs in the Priangan, West Java	MA	Monash University	1986	514
RICHTER, Martin (Max)	Musical worlds in Jogjakarta : contexts, genres, identities	PhD	LaTrobe University	2006	472 + 7 CDs
RATAWA, Wendy Margaret	Fijian vocal music and the vanua: a field study from Labasa, Vanua Levu	MA	Deakin University	1991	451
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
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
PUGH-KITINGAN, Jacqueline	An ethnomusicological study of the Huli of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Queensland	1981	3 vol
PRIOR, Aaron	Na suklit : Benicio Sokkong and the bamboo musical instruments of the Kalinga	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2011	151
POND, Wendy	Faiva: trials of skill: the song and dance of Tongan politics, 1773-1993	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	1995	2 vol
PHILLIPS, Irene Margaret Constance	Maori music, a historical survey	MA	University of Auckland	1929	NS
PAYNE, Helen	Singing a sister's sites: women's land rites in the Australian Musgrave Ranges.	PhD	University of Queensland	1988	NS
PAPESCH, Te Rita Bernadette	"Pupuritia ngā purapura i mahue mai rā: : te waiata-ā-ringa, 1960-1990	MAMaori	University of Waikato	1990	139
PANGENG, Shen	The traditional Japanese vocal music - Kouta	MA	Swinburne University of Technology	1998	54
OTTOSSON, Ase-Britt Charlotta	Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	PhD	Australian National University	2006	294
NUNEZ-DURAN, Carmen	The music of Rapanui (Easter Island's music) : a research project	MMus	University of NSW	1988	187
NEUENFELDT, Karl Wm	Sounding silences : ethnogenesis, ethno-pop music and indigenous peoples	PhD	Curtin University of Technology	1994	461
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
MOYLE, Richard M	Samoan traditional music	PhD	University of Auckland	1971	2 vol
Moyle, Alice M.	A comparative study of the metrical structure of North Australian Aboriginal songs	PhD	Monash University	withdrawn 1969
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
MORA, Manolete	Interpreting utom: an ethnographic account of the musical instrumental practice of the T'boli of Mindanao, Philippines	PhD	Monash University	1990	330
MOORE, Lynette M.	Songs of the Pakpak of North Sumatra	PhD	Monash University	1985	3 vol
MING-HUI, Ma	A comparison between Chinese "pipa" and Indian "Sitar" in contemporary performance	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	351 + CD + DVD
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
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
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
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
McCARDELL, Antony	Rhythm and melody in Australian Aboriginal songs of the Western Desert.	PhD	University of Western Aust.	1976	356 (2 vol) + maps +
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
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, 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
MAGILL, Jonathan Matthew	Cognitive models for the production of polyrhythms by a West African master drummer	MA	LaTrobe University	1995	127
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
MACKINLAY, Elizabeth	For our mother's song we sing: Yanyuwa women performers and composers of a-nguyulnguyul	PhD	University of Adelaide	1998	551
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
LLOYD, Rosemary	The Cook Island imene reo metua and imene tuki	MLitt	University of New England	1994	238
LITTLE, Jeni	The music of Nga pu Toru (Southern Cook Islands)	MMus	University of Auckland	1990	161
LINDSAY, Jennifer	Klasik, kitsch or contempoprary : a study of the Javanese performing arts	PhD	University of Sydney	1985	347
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
LICKISS ALEO, Angela	The oboe and English horn works of Ross Edwards and his place in Australian music	DMA	Overseas	2016	127
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
LEWIS, Anthony	Becoming a garamut drummer in Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Sydney	2012
LEE, Riley	Yearning for the bell: a study of transmission in the shakuhachi honkyoku tradition	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	684
LE, Duy Ngoc Linh	Mon traditional music	MA	Monash University	withdrawn
LAWRENCE, Helen Reeves	The material culture of contemporary music performance in Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands	PhD	James Cook University	1993	2 vol + cass
LAURIDSEN, Jan	Musical scales in Australian aboriginal songs: structure and social implications (didjeridu, folksongs)	PhD	Overseas	1983	140
LAIRD, Wayne	Drums and drumming in the Cook Islands	MMus	University of Auckland	1982	100
KREECK, Ian Stuart	The touch of voyagers: Polynesian and Western influences on the music of southern Papua, 1871-1958	MA	Deakin University	1991	186
KORNHAUSER, Bronia	Kroncong music in urban Java	MA	Monash University	1976	271
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
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
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
KITLEY, Yvonne	Music in the Wayang Parwa of Bali	M.Litt	University of New England	1995	152
KEOGH, Ray	Nurlu songs of the west Kimberleys	PhD	University of Sydney	1990	287
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
JONES, T.A.	Arnhem Land music	MA	University of Sydney	1958 NiC	Unknown
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
HURWORTH, Greg J.	An exploratory study of the music of the Yami of Botel Tobago, Taiwan	PhD	Monash University	1995	2 vol
HOSSAIN, Amzad	Religion of songs: the religious beliefs and practices of the Bauls of Bangladesh	MA	Deakin University	1990	253
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
HAYWARD, Philip	Music at the borders: Not Drowning, Waving and their engagement with Papua New Guinean culture (1986-94)	PhD	Macquarie University	1996	362
HARRISON, Gregory	The dialectics and aesthetics of freedom: Hegel, slavery and African American music	PhD	University of Sydney	1999	463
GUMMOW, Margaret	Aboriginal songs from the Bundjalung and Gidabal areas of South-Eastern Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	555 + cass
GRAVES, Randin Christopher	Cultural foundation of the Yidaki in Northeast Arnhem Land	MA	Charles Darwin University	2006	130
GOLDSWORTHY, David J	Melayu music of North Sumatra: continuities and change	PhD	Monash University	1979	618
GLAMUZINA, Kaye L	Contemporary music and performance practice in Levuka	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	217 + cass

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