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The Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary: An Australian Songline Culture Revived

hiphilangsci.net/2023/07/01/podcast-episode-34/

Click on this WordPress Podcast to hear about the Australian research behind the Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary, recently published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Songline terms and references pervade Warlpiri culture. Linguistics researcher Mary Laughren describes the terrible poverty and disadvantage that neglected Warlpiri First Peoples communities have endured for hundreds of years of colonial rule, and her research with brilliant American linguist Ken Hale, (who followed up in the linguistics work of Elkin and Capell, described the phonology of Warlpiri in consultation with Warlpiri Elders, and compiled the first Warlpiri Dictionary) and many other researchers.

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Aboriginal, Australia, Indigenous, Indigenous Music, intercultural, Music, music education, music policy, music repertoires, Music technology, networking, notation, publisher, teacher, Uluru Statement from the Heart, vocal

Nominees Announced for the Australian Independent Music Awards 2023

Ngarra Burria’s “To Listen To Sing” ABC album, that includes my Kooranginy suite, was nominated for an AIM Award this year – among other impressively stellar works.

Nominees Announced for the Australian Independent Music Awards 2023


— Read on musicfeeds.com.au/news/nominees-announced-for-the-australian-independent-music-awards-2023/

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Australia, Australian Music Centre, commission, composer, Indigenous, intercultural, media, Mooghalin Arts, Music, music curriculum, networking, premieres, publisher, Sheppard, song, writer

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Globalisation in Australian Church Music

Copyright ©️ Elizabeth Sheppard 2013. All Rights Reserved.

The effect of globalisation on Australian Church music has been as dire as its effect on that Aussie icon, Vegemite. Although many talented Australian composers continue to produce uniquely Australian Church music in many genres, Australian Church music governing bodies and clergy are paying minimal or no attention to local Australian Church music. In Australia, Church music licensing is dominated by globalised corporations who promote non-Australian Church music over the work of local Australian and Aboriginal composers. Australian Church music selection committees overwhelmingly favour non-Australian music over Australian Church music. Some Australian parish music programs use exclusively non-Australian music repertoires and genres. Public infusions of forward-looking, hopeful, uniquely Australian musical expressions of Christian faith are increasingly rare, ephemeral, and excluded from music examination lists.

For insight into why this has happened, read Jeffrey Tucker’s 2002 article about a multinational corporate Church music publisher whose policies and business ethics are not in tune with Christian beliefs, principles or practice (see link below)

The Hidden Hand behind Bad Catholic Music

The globalisation of Church music is also discussed in depth by a shocked Richard Barrett on the Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (Orthodox Christian) blog –

http://orthodoxyandheterodoxy.org/2013/01/29/the-hidden-hand-behind-bad-music-could-it-happen-here-american-catholic-worship-and-orthodoxy-in-america/

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Church Choirs, Church Music Globalisation, Church Music Marketing, Church Music Repertoire, composer, publisher

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