Folk, Ethnic, Trad.

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
AMANATIDIS, Agapi	Coming into being: metaphors of self and becoming in Carnival, on the Aegean Island of Skyros	PhD	University of Adelaide	2005	345
ANNABELL, Angela Ruth	New Zealand’s cultural and economic development reflected in song : aspects of the New Zealand folk song ethos.	PhD	University of Auckland	1976	473+ cass
BALL, Dorothy Louie	The popular element in the music of the English virginal school	MMus	University of Auckland	1979	186
BARWICK, Linda	Critical perspectives on oral song in performance : the case of Donna Lombarda	PhD	Flinders University	1986	2 vol + 2 cass
BASILE, Christopher	An ethnomusicological study of the Macedonian Women's Choir of Melbourne	MA	Monash University	1991	124
BENDRUPS, Faye	Tango sobre Argentina : una colisión exótica de nostalgia, política y negación	PhD	LaTrobe University	2002	393
BIEZAITIS, Mara	Volfgangs Darzins (1906-1962) : a response to Latvian music traditions in emigration	MMus	University of Adelaide	1984	179
BLACK, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
BOURCHIER, Randall	Australian multicultural policies, the arts and traditional music and dance within the Cambodian community of Melbourne	MA	Monash University	1991	102
BROWN, Michael	"There's a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track": a descriptive analysis of folk music collecting in New Zealand 1955-1975	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	245
BRUNT, Shelley	"Performing community: Japan's 50th Kouhaku Song Contest"	PhD	University of Adelaide	2006	2 vol + DVD
BRYANT, Helen Julia	The nature and role of music in No - with special reference to the play, Hogoromo	MA	Australian National University	1975	1 vol
CAINGLET, Enrique Cantel	Hispanic influences on the West Visayan folk song tradition of the Philippines	PhD	University of Adelaide	1981	2 vol
CALLAGHAN, Laurel Jean	A comparative framework for an analysis of the influence of language on national music style	MA	University of Western Aust.	1979	2 vol
CHEN, Zhi-Jun	Traditional opera in Taiwan	MCA	University of Wollongong	in progress (NiC08/07)
CHITTY, Gina Ismene Shenaz	Public postures, private positions: baila and Sydney Sri Lankans	PhD	Macquarie University	2005	226
COLEMAN, Jennie J.	Transmigration of the Piob Mhor : the Scottish Highland piping tradition in the South Island of New Zealand, with particular reference to Southland, Otago, and South Canterbury to 1940	PhD	University of Otago	1996	744
COURTEAU, Mona-Lynn	Music and dance performance, longing, and the construction of Brazil in Auckland, New Zealand	MA	University of Auckland	2006	160
CUMMINGS, Timothy James	The Great Highland bagpipe: extended techniques and their musical potential.	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2002	224
DAVIDSON-IRWIN, Rhonda G.	The role of Chinese music in the Queensland primary school curriculum	MMus Ed.	University of Western Aust.	1997	161
DOAR, Bruce Gordon	"We will create a music for the following empire" : developments in Chinese dramatic criticism, 1898-1918	PhD	University of Sydney	1982	280
DUFFY, Michelle	Music of Place: The Performance of Identity in Contemporary Australian Community Music Festivals	PhD	University of Melbourne	2001	220 + 210
DUNBAR, Mark	'All take, take, take ....' migrant musicians, the Australia Council, multiculturalism and music-making in Australia	MA	Monash University	1989	123
ENIZILIS, Demetra	The language of rebetika: a description and analysis	MA	University of Melbourne	1996	128
EVANS, Julie Spithill	A study of music and tradition at Sydney Assyrian wedding receptions	MMus	University of Sydney	2002	108 + video
FAHEY, Win	There's a lot more to music than music: folk music, folk festivals and cultural difference	MA	Griffith University	1999	95
FORBES, Anne-Marie H.	Celticism in British opera of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	PhD	University of Queensland	1992	302
FORWARD, Ian	The music of Finnish migrants in Canberra and Melbourne	MA	Monash University	1997	133
FRANCO-HARDWICK, Kathryn G.	From Mediated to Immediate: The Role of Technology on the Performance of Slovenian Folk Music in Port Lincoln, South Australia	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (NiC08/07)
FREILICH, Rachel	Song as the spiritual elevation of the soul: Habad women in Australia and their musical expression	PhD	University of Sydney	2006	416
GAETJENS, Peter W.	Flamenco guitar in the twentieth century	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (NiC08/07)
GALEA, Jeff	Ghana: the folk music of Malta influences on my music	MA	University of Wollongong	2005	65 + 1 CD
GALVIN, Stephen Patrick	The furrowed field : views of song and literature in Ireland 1840-1922 A.D	MMus	University of Auckland	1999	122
GARTH, Alan	A study of an Australian rural music festival	MA	Deakin University	2000	166
GUNTER, Philip	Ornamentation in performance styles on the contemporary Arabic 'ud	MA	Monash University	1996	156
HALDEY, Olga	Voices of the Russian calendar : the design of a program of computer-assisted instruction using traditional calendric songs of West and South of Russia	MMus Ed.	University of Sydney	1995	197
HAMIORA, Angeline Maurice	Aku waiata mo ngā tamariki, mokopuna: 1980 - 1990	M.Ed	University of Auckland	2003	172
HARDWICK-FRANCO, Kathryn	Slovenian folk music and identity maintenance in remote Port Lincoln, South Australia	MMus	University of Adelaide	in progress (2007)
HARRISON, Gregory	The dialectics and aesthetics of freedom: Hegel, slavery and African American music	PhD	University of Sydney	1999	463
HELM, Stephanie	Gamelan in Japan: Expressions of Japaneseness in pedagogical infrastructure and practice	MA	Monash University	in progress (2006)
HIRT, Andreas	The lays of Fionn mac Cumhaill: Performance practice and insights into Gaelic music	PhD	University of Otago	In progress (2008)
HORN, Kipps	Rebetika music in Melbourne, 1950-2000: old songs in a new land, new songlines in an old land	PhD	Monash University	2002	353
HUNTER, Cynthia L	The folkies: an ethnography of folkies and their songs	MA	University of Western Aust.	1983	178
JABUR, Nazar	The efficacy of performance in furthering cross-cultural understanding between refugees and Australian society: a refugee artist's commitment to the maintenance of cultural identity and the integrity of personal memory	MCA	University of Newcastle	2004	77
JONES, Anthony Linden	Beyond the Didjeridu: Representation of Aboriginality in Australian Film Music	MMus	University of Sydney	In progress (2008)
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
KELLY, Mary Jo	The role of the piano in the salsa, son ensemble	GDip Mus	Griffith University	1994	36 + cass
KIM, Jung-min	Re-discovery of traditional music in Choong-shin Presbyterian Church, Korea	GradDipMus	Australian National University	2001	93
KUMAR, Santhosh Sathya	Towards the development of an inculturated eucharistic liturgy for the Church of South India: a liturgical experiment using the ragas of Indian classical music.	DTheol	Melbourne College of Divinity	2006	345
LA TROBE, Joanne	Red earth: music-culture of Rār̥h, India	MA (Anthrop)	University of Auckland	1998	175 + disc
LEE, Elsa	Sunan Chui Da : an investigation of the Role of Percussion in Traditional Chinese Music	MMus	University of Adelaide	1988	1 vol
LEE, Elsa	The changing role and status of the drummer in Chuanju (Sichuan opera)	PhD	University of Adelaide	1993	3 vol
LEE, Riley	Yearning for the bell: a study of transmission in the shakuhachi honkyoku tradition	PhD	University of Sydney	1992	684
LEININGER-OGAWA, Marika	Contemporary Tradition: Japanese Traditional Music and the Live Club Scene in Tokyo	PhD	University of Adelaide	in progress (2002?)
LEWIS, Christine Gaynor	Welsh folk song in New Zealand	MMus	University of Auckland	1975	763
LIM, Vi King	The music of Chinese communities in Indonesia	MMus	University of Sydney	in progress (NiC08/07)
LOK, Lay Hong	The erhu and its role as a vehicle for syncretic music performance in Singapore	M.Phil	Massey University	2004	130
MacDONNELL, David	The folk music revival in Otago	MA	University of Otago	in progress (NiC08/07)
MACKLEY-CRUMP, Jared	The Festivalisation of Pasifika Cultures in New Zealand	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2009)
MADULID, Jerome Cherubim	An analysis of selected slide guitar techniques used by Jerry Douglas, Bob Brozman and Debashish Bhattacharya	MA (Hons)	Macquarie University	2006	204 + 1 CD
MARETT, Allan	1976 Hakuga’s flute score:an examination of the sources, notation and historical significance of the oldest surviving source in flute notation for the Togaku repertory of Japanese music, the Hakuga no	PhD	Overseas	1976
MARETT, Allan	An examination of the Jati melodies and their characteristics as described in the fourteenth century Indian treatise, Samgitaratnakara	MA	Overseas	1972
MAYO, Robert Frederick	A study of the characteristics of modern Japanese music	MA	University of Auckland	1986	27
McNEIL, Adrian	The dynamics of social and musical status in Hindustānī music: sarodiyās, seniyās and the mārgī-deśī paradigm	PhD	Monash University	1992	340
MICOS, Maria	Music in the Greek Festival of Sydney, 1980 to 2005	MMus Ed.	University of Sydney	2006	186
MONK, Susan Leticia	Tiempos de trovar - contesting and creating spaces for singer-songwriters : the role of the neuva trova in Cuba	PhD	University of Queensland	2007	238 + CD
NAPIER, John J.	The introduction and use of the harmonium in North Indian classical music	MMus	University of NSW	1994	174
NG, Kwok Wai	Transformation of the Togaku modes from Tang Period China (AD 618 - 907) to Modern Japan	PhD	University of Sydney	in progress (NiC08/07)
NOORY, Siamak	Farāmarz Pāyvar and his place in Iranian music	MMus	University of Melbourne	2002	134
O'BRIEN, Jane R	Percy Grainger : English folk song and the Grainger English folk song collection	PhD	LaTrobe University	1979	631 (2 vols.)
O'SHEA, Helen	Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music	PhD	Victoria University (Vic. Australia)	2005	268 + 2 CDs
OLAFSDOTTIR, Ragneheidur	Icelandic traditional vocal music: Voices in isolation or connection? A critical commentary on the Icelandic singing tradition and a comparison of three vocal folk music traditions from the North Seas, from 1900 to the present	PhD	Australian National University	in progress (2004?)
ORMSBY, Suzanne	Te reo puoro Maori mai i mua tae noa mai ki inaianei = The voices of Maori music, past, present and future : Maori musicians of the 1960s	MA	University of Auckland	1996	224
PLESCH, Melanie	The guitar in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires: towards a cultural history of an Argentine musical emblem	PhD	University of Melbourne	1998	448
POOLE, Kim M.	An ethnomusicological survey of the songs currently performed in folk clubs/festivals in Australia	PhD	University of NSW	in progress (NiC08/07)
POOLE, Kim M.	A stylistic analysis of the guitar accompaniments of the British folk revival 1961-1988	MMus	University of NSW	1990	214
RAKAUSKAS, Jennifer Anne	The sound of change: music-making by Lithuanians living in Australia : a case study in cultural assimilation	MA	Flinders University	199	239
RITCHIE, Anthony Damian	The influence of folk music in three works by Bela Bartok : Sonata no.1 for violin and piano, Sonata (1926) for piano, and Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano	PhD	University of Canterbury	1986	631
RYAN, Michael Joseph	Brazilian music in Sydney, 1971-1984: an emic-etic approach to the structure of folk models	PhD	University of Sydney	1989	335 + 1 cass
SMITH, Graeme	The social meaning of Irish button accordian playing styles from 1900-1975	PhD	Monash University	1990	505
STEER, Catherine	Motion through time: Kujawy village mazurkas as a key to understanding rubato within the time frame of a bar in Chopin's mazurkas	PhD	University of Adelaide	2004	325
STREHLOW, Theodor George Henry	Songs of Central Australia	D.Litt	University of Adelaide	1971	775
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
TSITSISHVILI, Nino	National Unity and Gender Difference in Georgian Traditional Song-Culture: Ideologies and Practices	PhD	Monash University	2004	294
TSITSISHVILI, Nino	Table and solo work song genres in Kartli-Kakheti, eastern Georgia: context of performance, musical style, and culture contact	MA	Monash University	1998	160 + cass
TSOUNIS, Demeter	Rebetika music-making in Adelaide: diaspora musical style and identity	PhD	University of Adelaide	2002	275
VARNEY, John	The Cúmbia : a performer's perspective	GDip Musicol	Griffith University	1994	32
VARNEY, John	O Cavaquinho	GDip Musicol	Griffith University	1994	99
VARNEY, John	Colombian Bambuco: the evolution of a national music style	PhD	Griffith University	1999	2 vol
WALLACE, Catherine Jane	An examination of the supernatural in Scottish Gaelic folksongs and folktales	MA	University of Sydney	1994	145 + cass tape
WANG, Zheng-Ting	A history of Chinese music in Victoria	MA	Monash University	1995	127
WANG, Zheng-Ting	Chinese Music in the Diaspora to New York and Melbourne: 1980s to 2000	PhD	University of Melbourne	2004	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, Christian	Acquiring the ability to improvise: a cross-cultural study examining the learning processes and performance strategies of musicians in jazz, Hindustani music, and Arabic taqsim	PhD	University of NSW	in progress (2007)
YANG, Mu	Folk music of Hainan Island: with particular emphasis on Danzian County	PhD	University of Queensland	1990	591
YI, Jin	The development of Chinese new opera	PhD	University of Melbourne	2005	415
YU, Julian	Ornamentation in traditional Chinese instrumental music and its application in original compositions	MA	LaTrobe University	1993	127

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