Asian indigenous

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
AYYAR, Mohan	The composition process in the music of Bharatanatyam (a South Indian Classical dance form).	PhD	Macquarie University	in progress (2007)
BARKER, Simon	"Scattering rhythms" : The Koreanisation of the Western drumset	PhD	University of Sydney	2010	114 + 1 CD + 1 DVD
BASILE, Christopher	Tradition and change in Rotinese sasandu-accompanied song	PhD	Monash University	2005	342
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
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
BRENNAN, Carolyn W	From Alam Melayu to Melayu Baru : understanding Dikir Barat in Singapore = From Malay world to New Malay : From Malay world to New Malay	PhD	University of Melbourne	2009
CAINGLET, Enrique Cantel	Hispanic influences on the West Visayan folk song tradition of the Philippines	PhD	University of Adelaide	1981	2 vol
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
CHENG, Lancini Jen-Hao	Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal musical instruments	PhD	University of Otago	2014	989
COLLINS, Megan Erica	The Minangkabau Rabab Pasisia : music, performance and practice in West Sumatra Indonesia	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	2002	2 vol + 10 CDs
DASSENAIKE, Nilusha Ranjini	Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances	MPhil	Australian National University	2012	89 + CD
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
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
EIKAS-LEE, Wendy	Music of Nepalese Festivals in Migration and Its Social and Musical Implications, in Singapore	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2015)
EVANS, Samuel	Representing tabla music : defining an effective notation system for Indian tabla repertoire	MA	Monash University	2010	105 + DVD
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
GEORGE, Effy	The Sorathiya Rabari : women's instrumentality in the culture of a pastoral caste	PhD	LaTrobe University	2004	421
GOLDSWORTHY, David J	Melayu music of North Sumatra: continuities and change	PhD	Monash University	1979	618
HELM, Stephanie	Gamelan in Japan: Expressions of Japaneseness in pedagogical infrastructure and practice	MA	Monash University	in progress (2006)
HOE, Mern Sophian	An investigation of inter-cultural music learning and teaching in Balinese and Javanese gamelan	MMus	University of Sydney	2008	92
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	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
JIN, Jospehine	Folio of compositions and critical commentary	PhD	University of Queensland	2014	286
KAUR, Amrita	Rāgamālā : a garland of architecture and music	MArch	University of Auckland	2015	181
KHOZANATU LAHPAN, Neneng Yanti	Negotiating ethnicity and Islam in musical performances in West Java Indonesia	PhD	Monash University	2015	307
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
LA TROBE, Joanne	Red earth: music-culture of Rār̥h, India	MA (Anthrop)	University of Auckland	1998	175 + disc
LE, Duy Ngoc Linh	Mon traditional music	MA	Monash University	withdrawn
LEE, In-Suk	Aspects of the Korean traditional vocal genre, kagok: female kagok and the call for a new integrative kagok notation.	PhD	University of Canterbury	2007	480 + 48
LEE, Riley	Yearning for the bell: a study of transmission in the shakuhachi honkyoku tradition	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	684
LEWIS, Anthony	Becoming a garamut drummer in Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea	PhD	University of Sydney	2012
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)
LINDSAY, Jennifer	Klasik, kitsch or contempoprary : a study of the Javanese performing arts	PhD	University of Sydney	1985	347
MADZHI, Nadia Widyawati	Reconstructing and revitalising the music-culture of the Melanau people of Sarawak, with special reference to Mukah	PhD	Monash University	2015	326
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
MASON, Paul Howard	Music, movement, martial arts: sound and gesture in West Sumatran, West Javanese, and Afro-Bahian combat-dancing	PhD	Macquarie University	2011	304 + DVD
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
MING-HUI, Ma	A comparison between Chinese "pipa" and Indian "Sitar" in contemporary performance	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	351 + CD + DVD
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
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
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)
PANGENG, Shen	The traditional Japanese vocal music - Kouta	MA	Swinburne University of Technology	1998	54
PRIOR, Aaron	Na suklit : Benicio Sokkong and the bamboo musical instruments of the Kalinga	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2011	151
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
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
RAJATHURAI, Yogandran	Hindu caste music in the Malaysian Thaipusam festival	MA	University of Canterbury	2007	142
RICHTER, Martin (Max)	Musical worlds in Jogjakarta : contexts, genres, identities	PhD	LaTrobe University	2006	472 + 7 CDs
ROCKELL, Kim	The Philippine rondalla [videorecording] : recreating musical heritage in contemporary Australasia	PhD	University of Canterbury	2012
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, Bernadette Therese	The Roles of Phleng Phuea Chiwit Music (Songs for Life) in Forming Identities within the Forces of Globalisation in Thailand: Individuated Perspectives Similar to ‘Sufficiency’ Philosophies	PHD	Not Applicable	2016	378
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
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
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
SKIPWORTH, Lachlan	HONNIN NO SHIRABE : SEARCHING FOR A COMPOSITIONAL RESPONSE TO THE TRADITION OF SHAKUHACHI HONKYOKU.	PhD	University of Sydney	2016
SURAWERA	Low-Country drumming of Sri Lanka.	PhD	University of Canterbury	in progress (2006)
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
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
TANG, Xu	Portfolio of compositions	MMus	University of Waikato	2015
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
WANG, Yu Yan	Chaozhou daluogu perfromance, repertoire, instruments, technique, transmission and sustainability in an ancient Chinese percussion genre	DMA	Griffith University	2011	345
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
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
WEI, Deng	Historical development of the pipa [Chinese Lute]	MMus	University of Tasmania	1987	192
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

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