Musical islands exploring connections between music, place and research (Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2009)
Revised versions of select papers presented at the Combined Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Musicological Societies in Brisbane, November 22-25, 2007
Includes bibliographical references
Preface / Huib Schippers -- Beginning the musical voyage : an introduction / Elizabeth Mackinlay, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Katelyn Barney --
Part one, literal islands : localised contexts and musical journeys across cultures. Current perspectives on ethnomusicology. An ethnomusicology of hope in a time of trauma / Deborah Wong ; Behind every tree? Ethnomusicology in Papau New Guinea / Kirsty Gillespie ; Low-country drumming of Sri Lanka : a musical island on an island, a technical analysis with reference to the Yahan Dhakma / Sum Suraweera ; An island within : performance and function of Huu songs on Takuu Atoll / Richard Moyle -- Australia and the Pacific. The memories linger on, but the stories tell me who I am : a conversation between an indigenous Australian performer and a non-indigenous music researcher / Katelyn Barney and Lexine Solomon ; Railway songs : the diaspora of Eastern Torres Strait Islander music as a reflection of people, identity and place / David Salisbury ; Outlier style : the Futuna sound and Vanuatu stringband music / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward ; The outback in the Himalayas : island-esque tropes of identity and landscape in Australian composer Stuart Greenbaum's Ice man ; The master and the media : Malcolm Williamson in the press / Carolyn Philpott ; Holding an island captive : Fritz Kreisler's Australian tour of 1925 / Anne-Marie Forbes --
Part two, metaphorical islands : connections between research traditions, musicians and musical voyages. Current viewpoints on gender and sexuality. Madwoman, bansee, shaman : gender, changing performance contexts and the Irish wake ritual / Narelle McCoy ; Spewing out of the closet : musicology on queer punk / Jodie Taylor ; Singing maternity : making visible the musical worlds of mothers and their children / Elizabeth Mackinlay -- Contemporary perspectives on musicians and the music industry. Awash in a sea of possibilities : anchoring a 21st-century music business / Hugh Brown ; "One iced decaf double venti frappuccino and the Ray Charles please" : the Starbucks Coffee Company and the changing face of the music industry / Craig De Wilde ; Examining meaningful engagement : musicology and virtual music making environments / Steve Dillon ; The psychic "island" of the sociopath : Nick Cave as creator-protagonist in his "Song of joy" / Linda Kouvaras ; Daniel Bernard Roumain : the fusion of hip hop and art music in string quartets / Kheng K. Koay ; Vanished islands : the assimilation of the extraneous to conventional pieces in three distinct repertoires / John Napier -- Historical outlooks on music traditions and music making. The island's full of noises, sounds and sweet airs : Thomas Adès's version of Shakespeare's The tempest / Michael Halliwell ; Rhetoric as a guide to vocal timbre and sonority in Italian recitative / Alan Maddox ; No string quartet is an island : the stylistic reflection of contemporary European views on the function of art in the late works of Beethoven / Imogen Coward ; The hybrid musical mass : a question of text / Stephanie Rocke ; Islands of influence : Jacobs, Hoffmann and Platt in New Zealand 1957 / Marian Poole