City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Making Aboriginal men and music in Central Australia, by Ase Ottosson

Includes bibliographical references and index

Making Aboriginal men and music in Central Australia

by Ase Ottosson

This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts, an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements, small non-indigenous towns, and tours beyond the musicians' homeland, the author challenges existing scholarly, political and popular understandings of Australian Aboriginal music, men, and related indigenous matters in terms of radical social, cultural and racial difference. Based on extensive anthropological field research among Aboriginal rock, country and reggae musicians in small towns and remote desert settlements in Central Australia, the book investigates how Aboriginal musicians experience and articulate various aspects of their male and indigenous sense of selves as they make music and engage with indigenous and non-indigenous people, practices, places, and sets of values

Real and imagined Aboriginal music, men and place -- Desert musics -- Music and men in the Aboriginal studio -- Men making the studio -- Playing Aboriginal communities -- Blackfellas playing whitefella Towns -- Touring blackfellas -- Changing Aboriginal men and musicians