Publications and Conference Papers

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  

(2018) Yolngu Music, Indigenous Knowledge Centres, and the Emergence of Archives as Contact Zones. In Frank Gunderson, Rob Lancefield, and Bret Woods (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

(2017)   Form and Performance: The Relations of Melody, Poetics, and Rhythm in Dhalwangu Manikay. In Kirsty Gillespie, Don Niles, and Sally Treloyn (eds), A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. P.G. Toner (ed.). Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Introduction: Strings of Connectedness in Ian Keen鈥檚 Scholarship. In P.G. Toner (ed.), Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015)  Bakhtin鈥檚 Theory of the Utterance and Dhalwangu Manikay. In P.G. Toner (ed.), Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Public Property and the Public Trust in New Brunswick. In Tony Tremblay and James Kerr (eds.), Journal of New Brunswick Studies Reader. Fredericton: Centre for Digital Scholarship, UNB.

 

(2014) Public Property and the Public Trust in New Brunswick. Journal of New Brunswick Studies 5 (2014): 9-14.

 

(2009) co-edited with Michael Boudreau and Tony Tremblay. Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick. Fredericton: New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre.

 

(2008) Nine Sites for the Study of Irish-New Brunswick Folk Music: Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. In Post-Colonial Distances: The Study of Popular Music in Canada and Australia. (eds.) Beverley Diamond, Denis Crowdy, and Daniel Downes Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

(2007) The Gestation of Cross-Cultural Music Research and the Birth of Ethnomusicology. Humanities Research 14(1): 85-110.

 

(2007) Sing a Country of the Mind: The Articulation of Place in Dhalwangu Song. In The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality. (ed.) Fiona Richards. Aldershot: Ashgate.

 

(2005) Tropes of Longing and Belonging: Nostalgia and Musical Instruments in Northeast Arnhem Land. Yearbook for Traditional Music 37: 1-24.

 

(2005) Home Among the Gum Trees: An Ethnography of Yolngu Musical Performance in Mainstream Contexts. In Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land. (eds.) Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

 

(2004) co-edited with Karl Neuenfeldt and Stephen A. Wild. 鈥淲orld Music: Politics, Production, and Pedagogy鈥, special thematic issue of The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(2).

 

(2004) (with Stephen A. Wild) Introduction - World Music: Politics, Production, and Pedagogy. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(2): 95-112.

 

(2003) History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities, or, Memory as Metadata. In Researchers, Communities, Institutions, Sound Recordings. (eds.) Linda Barwick, Jane Simpson and Amanda Harris. Sydney: University of Sydney. (

 

(2003) Melody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities. Yearbook for Traditional Music 35: 69-95.

 

(2000) Ideology, Influence and Innovation: The Impact of Macassan Contact on Yolngu Music. Perfect Beat 鈥 The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 5(1): 22-41.

 

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

(2018) Review of John Gibson, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective. Canadian Historical Review, in press.

 

(2017) Review of Anna Kearney Guign茅, The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports: As Taken from Kenneth Peacock鈥檚 Newfoundland Field Collection, 1951-1961. Acadiensis Blog, https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/.

 

(2016) Review of Sherry Johnson, Beverley Diamond, and C.K. Szego (producers), Bellows & Bows: Historic Recordings of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Music from Across Canada. Yearbook for Traditional Music 48: 220-221.

 

(2011) Gorman, Lawrence. In New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. (ed.) Tony Tremblay. Fredericton: St. 星空传媒. (

 

(2011) Scott, Joseph. In New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. (ed.) Tony Tremblay. Fredericton: St. 星空传媒. (http:// w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/s/scott_joseph.html)

 

(2009)  Review of Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation by David W. Samuels.

 

Journal of American Folklore 122 (484): 229-30.

 

(2008) Review of Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr. The World of Music 50(3). (2008) Cultural Property. Entry in 鈥淜eywords鈥 section of the website Critical World: Thinking Globalisation Through Music

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(2008) Review of Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology by Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako (eds.). Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 44(2): 193-4.

 

(2007) Review of Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia by Allan Marett. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18(3): 361-2.

 

(2004) Music is Good to Listen To and Good to Think (Review of Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (CD anthology), recorded and annotated by Steven Feld). The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(1): 71-7. [review article]

 

(2002) Review of People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana by Les Hiatt, Kim McKenzie, Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002 (number 2): 91-3.

 

Seminars and Conference Papers

 

鈥淟egacies of 鈥楾he Old People鈥: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in Yolngu Ritual Music,鈥 44th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Limerick, Ireland. (07/2017)

 

鈥淪ound, Evocation, and Presence in Yolngu Manikay,鈥 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Washington, DC, USA (11/2016)

 

鈥淭he Transmogrification of 鈥楾radition鈥: Hybridity, Meaning-Making, and Intangible Cultural Heritage,鈥 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (05/2016)

 

鈥淎ffect, Memory, and Meaning in Archival Recordings of Yolngu Manikay,鈥 2nd Conference of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Canberra, Australia. (12/2014)

 

鈥淓thnic Identities, Traditional Musics, and the Expediency of Culture,鈥 Acadian Traditional Music: At the Crossroads of French and Celtic Cultures conference, Sydney, N.S., Canada (10/2013)

 

鈥淚s There a New Brunswick Fiddle Style? Does It Matter? On the Search for a Provincial Musical Identity,鈥 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Saint John, N.B., Canada (05/2012)

 

鈥淗ybridity, Revivalism, and the Second Life of Irish Music in New Brunswick,鈥 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, St. John鈥檚, NFLD, Canada (07/2011)

 

鈥淟ocating 鈥楥eltic鈥 Music in Early 21st-Century New Brunswick; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the 鈥楶ure Drop鈥 and Love the Music,鈥 Celts in the Americas conference, Antigonish, NS, Canada (06/2011)

 

鈥淎rchives as Contact Zones: Competing Epistemologies in Australian 鈥業ndigenous Knowledge Centres鈥,鈥 Canadian Anthropological Society conference, Fredericton, NB, Canada (05/2011)

 

鈥淚mages of Identity and Memory in Dhalwangu Song,鈥 Imaging Identity conference, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (07/2010)

 

鈥淚nvented Traditions, Revivalism, and Cultural Production at the Miramichi Folksong Festival,鈥 18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada (05/2009)

 

鈥淪oftware Tools for Socio-Musical Analysis,鈥 NBASRDC Symposium, Fredericton, N.B., Canada (04/2009)

 

鈥淎 Tale of Two Festivals: The Construction of Cultural Identity on the Miramichi,鈥 52nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Halifax, NS, Canada (11/2008)

 

鈥溾楢uthentic鈥 Identities and Hybrid Musics among the Irish in New Brunswick,鈥 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Middletown, CT, USA (10/2008)

 

鈥溾楢uthentic鈥 Identities and Hybrid Musics among the Irish in New Brunswick,鈥 Seventeenth Biennial Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland (06/2008)

 

"New Media, Memory, and Yolngu (Auto)Biographical Discourses,鈥 Indigenous Biography and Autobiography conference, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia (07/2007)  

 

鈥淢anagement as Discourse, Memory as Discourse: Issues in the Repatriation of Intangible Cultural Heritage,鈥 joint conference of the Canadian Anthropological Society and the American Ethnological Society, Toronto, ON (05/2007) 

 

鈥淥ld Recordings, New Technologies, and the Study of the Musical Past,鈥 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, USA (11/2005)

 

鈥淲ho is Still Living at Duffy鈥檚 Hotel?: New Brunswick Folk Music and the Articulation of Irish Identity,鈥 Post-Colonial Distances: The Study of Popular Music in Canada and Australia, St. John鈥檚, NFLD (06/2005)

 

鈥淚mprovisation and Compositional Creativity in Yolngu Song Texts,鈥 Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia (07/2004)

 

鈥淭he Gestation of Cross-Cultural Music Research and the Birth of Ethnomusicology,鈥 Centre for Cross- Cultural Research Six-Pack Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (06/2004)           

 

鈥淗istory, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities or Memory as Metadata,鈥 Digital Audio Archiving Workshop, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (09/2003)

 

鈥淎 Bakhtinian Approach to Yolngu Sociality,鈥 Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Winter Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (08/2003)

 

鈥淐an I Get a Copy of This?: Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Digital Repatriation,鈥 Music Research Forum, Garma Festival, Gulkula, NT, Australia (08/2003) 

 

鈥淢usicality, Polytropy, and Dhalwangu Song: A Case Study of an Epic Song Tradition of Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia,鈥 Chanted Tales Research Group Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (05/2003)

 

鈥淎rchives and Libraries: A User鈥檚 Perspective of AIATSIS,鈥 Research Seminar Series, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia (05/2003)

 

鈥淢elody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities,鈥 Anthropology Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (03/2003)

 

鈥淲estern Musicology and Non-Western Music: Challenges in Translation,鈥 Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Six-Pack Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (08/2002)

 

鈥淢y Year of Reading Yolngu Music,鈥 Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Colloquium, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (10/2001)           

 

鈥淧olytropy and Dhalwangu Song: An Initial Formulation,鈥 Department of Anthropology Staff Seminar Series, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (10/2000)

 

鈥淔ive Ways to Sing About Water, Six Ways to Sing About the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo: Different Versions of Dhalwangu Songs,鈥 Musicological Society of Australia Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (04/2000)

 

鈥溾榃here Do We Sing Today?鈥: The Articulation of Place in Yolngu Song,鈥 Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (10/1998)  

 

鈥淗ome Among the Gum Trees: An Ethnography of Yolngu Musical Performance in Mainstream Contexts,鈥 6th National Australian/New Zealand IASPM & Inaugural Arnhem Land Performance Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (06/1998)

 

鈥淚deology, Influence, and Innovation: The Impact of Indonesian Contact on Australian Aboriginal Music,鈥 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, USA (10/1997)

 
鈥淚deology, Influence, and Innovation: The Impact of Indonesian Contact on Australian Aboriginal Music,鈥 Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (post- fieldwork seminar) (09/1997)           

 

鈥淟isten: Yolngu Music, and Yolngu Musical Anthropology,鈥 Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (mid-fieldwork seminar) (09/1996)

 

鈥淭oward a Yolngu Musical Anthropology,鈥 Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (pre-fieldwork seminar) (07/1995)