Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia

Exchanges in The Third Space

Katelyn Barney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032265049
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000813401
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to facilitating positive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia. Each of the chapters in this edited collection examines specific examples in diverse contexts, and reflects on key issues that underpin musical exchanges, including the benefits and challenges of intercultural music making. The collection demonstrates how these musical collaborations allow Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to work together, to learn from each other, and to improve and strengthen their relationships. The metaphor of the "third space" of intercultural music making is interwoven in different ways throughout this volume. While focusing on Indigenous Australian/non-Indigenous intercultural musical collaboration, the book will be of interest globally as a resource for scholars and postgraduate students exploring intercultural musical communication in countries with histories of colonisation, such as New Zealand and Canada.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Black fulla, White fulla: Can there be a truly balanced collaboration?
• 2 Rock band: A third, brave space for Indigenous language
• 3 Theorising ganma: Yothu Yindi and third-space musical collaborations
• 4 Call to Yawahr: Opening a third space for collaborative music making between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities
• 5 One mob dreaming: Cultivating a working model for song-sharing between Koori and non-Koori children in the Bega Valley, New South Wales
• 6 Indigenous music and cultural engagement: Listening with our ears and hearts
• 7 Finding solid ground: Industry collaboration and mentoring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in secondary schools
• 8 Adventures in the third space of intra-Indigenous recording projects: Is border-crossing a bridge or a barrier?
• 9 In the borders and borderlands of coloniality with Hélène Cixous and Gloria Anzaldúa: An ethnomusicological theory-story of intercultural music-making
• Index