Sth Pacific indig.

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
WEIGHTMAN, Monica	The dancing brolga: a musical journey of deepening connection to identity	MA	Monash University	2013
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
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
THORPE, Wayne	Watbalimba : language of song, story and dance.	M.Ed	Monash University	2011
THORNE, Robert L	(Re)constructing the kōauau : traditional and modern methods in the making of kōauau rākau	MA	Massey University	2012	231
TAO, Yu Lara.	Yosakoi soran : a transplanted performance tradition in New Zealand	M.A	University of Auckland	2010
TALO, Ruth Rene	Festival of fusion : the celebration, representation and identification of Pacific cultures at Auckland’s Pasifika festival	MA	University of Auckland	2008	148
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
SMITH, Robert George	Indigenous Australian music and dance in West-centrically oriented primary classrooms : evaluating the initiation, application and appropriateness of a series of customised teaching and learning strategies designed to communicate musical and related understandings interculturally	D.Teach	Northern Territory University Darwin	1998	202
SHENNAN, Jennifer	Waiata-a-ringa : a movement study of action songs, the dance genre developed in the twentieth century by the Maori people of New Zealand.	MA (Anthro)	University of Auckland	1977	213
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
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
ROMO, Rebecca	Taonga pūoro and flute : A guide to interpreting Māori influenced repertoire for Western flute through works by Whitehead, Fisher, and Grenfell	MMus	University of Sydney	2010	49
ROLLO, Te Manaaroha Pirihira	Tito Waiata-Tito Pūoro: extending the Kīngitanga music tradition.	PhD	University of Waikato	2014
RICKWOOD, Julie Ann	"We are Australian": An Ethnographic Investigation of the convergence of community music and reconciliation	PhD	Australian National University	2016	357
RATAWA, Wendy Margaret	Fijian vocal music and the vanua: a field study from Labasa, Vanua Levu	MA	Deakin University	1991	451
PUGH-KITINGAN, Jacqueline	An ethnomusicological study of the Huli of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Queensland	1981	3 vol
POSSE EMILIANI, Maria Elvira	From the Colombian Caribbean to the South Pacific: Cultural hybridity and resistance in film, music and art	PhD	Australian Catholic University	2015
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
PAPESCH, Te Rita Bernadette	Creating a modern Maori identity through Kapa Haka	PhD	University of Canterbury	2015
OTTOSSON, Ase-Britt Charlotta	Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	PhD	Australian National University	2006	294
NEUENFELDT, Karl Wm	Sounding silences : ethnogenesis, ethno-pop music and indigenous peoples	PhD	Curtin University of Technology	1994	461
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
MORRISON, Glenn	Songlines and fault lines : six walks that shaped a nation	PhD	Macquarie University	2015	331
MOORE, Sarah Jane	Title Reconciliation through Music and Art. A study in Two Schools	PhD	University of Sydney	2015
MINESTRELLI, Chiara	"Still the same corroboree?" culture, identity and politics in Australian Indigenous hip hop	PhD	Monash University	2014
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
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, 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
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
LINTON, Sean	The Music of 'Are'are: Acoustemology, Environmental Influences and Sustainability	PhD	University of Otago	2013	325
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
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
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
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
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
GLAMUZINA, Kaye L	Contemporary music and performance practice in Levuka	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	217 + cass
GILLESPIE, Kirsty Jane	Steep Slopes : song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea	PhD	Australian National University	2007	282 + CD
GENOVA, Vincent Anthony	Torres Strait island music: A cantometric study	PhD	Overseas	1991	379
FURLAN, Alberto	Songs of continuity and change: the reproduction of Aboriginal culture through traditional and popular music	PhD	University of Sydney	2005	440
DUNLOP, Roslyn Ann	The indigenous music of East Timor and its relationship to the social and cultural mores and lulik worldview of its autochthonous people	PhD	University of Newcastle	2016	278
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
DONOHOE, Patricia Mary	Breath of Dirima: a research project [Papua New Guinea]	MMus	University of NSW	1987	340
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
DAVISON, Michael	Didjeridu journey	MCA	University of Newcastle	2005	54
CURKPATRICK, Samuel	Conversing tradition : Wagilak manikay 'song' and the Australian Art Orchestra's Crossing Roper Bar	PhD	Australian National University	2014	388
CROSS, Melissa	The Forgotten Soundtrack of Maoriland : Imagining the Nation Through Alfred Hill's Songs for Rewi's Last Stand	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2015	155
COLSON, Geoffroy	Compositional Ethnomusicology and the Tahitian Musical Landscape: Towards Meta-Sustainability through Creative Practice Research Informed by Ethnographic Fieldwork	PhD	University of Sydney	2016	2 Vols
COLE, Malcolm A	Tropical Sounds: A Music Education History of Cairns and Yarrabah: 1930 to 1970	PhD	James Cook University	2014
CHENOWETH, Vida	The music of the Usarufas	PhD	University of Auckland	1974	2 vol
CATTERMOLE, Jennifer Anne	Sere ni cumu: a localised music tradition on Taveuni, Fiji	PhD	Macquarie University	2007	952 + 1 CD
CAMPBELL, Genevieve	Ngarukuruwala - we sing: the songs of the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	436
BROWN, Reuben Jay	Following footsteps: The kun-borrk/manyardi song tradition and its role in western Arnhem Land society.	PhD	University of Sydney	2016
BRACKNELL, Clint Thomas	Natj Waalanginy (What singing?): Nyungar song from the south-west of Western Australia	PhD	University of Western Aust.	2015
BLACK, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
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
BENIUK, David	Contemporary aboriginal songs and songwriters : post-colonialism, categorisation and orality	MA (Hons)	University of Wollongong	1995	98
BARNEY, Katelyn	Playing Musical Hopscotch: How Indigenous Australian Women Perform Around, Within and Against Aboriginalism	PhD	University of Queensland	2006	309 + CD
Anon	Tuvalu: an Ethnomusicological Survey.	PhD	University of New England	in progress (2007)
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	Ples and the production of lokal music in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Otago	2011
ANDERSON, Gregory	Murlarra: a clan song series from central Arnhem Land	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	920 + 2 cass + vid

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