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Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places:

Contemporary Aboriginal Music In Australia
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UNSW Press, 2004 - Music - 296 pages
This is the first comprehensive book on contemporary Aboriginal music in Australia. The names of many well-known Aboriginal artists are scattered through the book's pages, including such household names as Ernie Bridge, Kev Carmody, Troy Cassar-Daley, Coloured Stone, Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, the Warumpi Band and, of course, Yothu Yindi. The book includes a Discography of the artists featured in the book.
  

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Extensively researched and very interesting book about the intersection of Aboriginal land rights and Aboriginal pop music. However, like many such books, it's still white people writing anthropologically about non-white people. Read full review

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Contents

Acknowledgments
10
Abbreviations
13
Introduction
15
What is contemporary Aboriginal music?
16
Geographies of contemporary Aboriginal music
19
Situating musical knowledges
21
Audiences and aesthetics
24
Music and country
26
Comin at yal hiphop projects from the bush
126
Rhythm n bounce Aboriginal R6?B
130
Conclusion
132
a Sites as songs place in the music
135
Warumpinya links to tradition
142
Conclusion afterWarumpinya
150
Contemporary music and Aboriginal languages
157
Conclusion negotiating cultural and economic identities
168

Terminology
27
Structure of the book
31
x Origins institutions industries
35
Music hall vaudeville and gum leaves
38
Evangelical sounds and the influence of missions
40
A new mobility
43
Reggae and rock in the 1970s and 1980s
47
Contemporary music in the era of selfdetermination
50
A national geography
56
Recording companies and the music industry
58
a Music place and identity
67
Music and the Aboriginal significance of place
69
Naming practices among Aboriginal music groups
74
Aboriginalisation and music
75
Gender and identity
84
Conclusion music and community
91
x Singing country
95
NonAboriginal country music in Australia
96
Aboriginal country music
99
Aboriginal country music performers
103
Covering songs changing meanings
106
Prison songs
108
The Tamworth Country Music Festival
112
Conclusion
116
a Aboriginality and transnational black culture hiphop and RB
119
Black transnationalism
120
Tourism and music in Alice Springs
182
Conclusion
189
Yothu Yindi
198
Conclusion
208
a Nitmiluk place and postcolonialism
211
Nitmiluk creation and colonialism
212
Blckbala Mujiks Nitmiluk
216
Nitmiluk as map of Jawoyn country
220
The Jawoyn land claim for Nitmiluk
222
Rebuilding the Jawoyn Nation
225
Conclusion
227
chapter io a Mapping the Kimberley music and regionalism
229
Kimberley Aboriginal music
230
Broome
232
Mining at Noonkanbah
236
Music and politics regionalism and Kimberley music
239
Conclusion
244
x Reclaiming country
247
The Wave Hill strike
248
The homeland movement
252
Mabo
254
Conclusion beyond Mabo
259
Discography
263
References
269
Index
290
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