Music and dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific: The effect of documentation on the living tradition

Abstract

This book comprises twelve papers and discussions delivered at the Colloquium of the International Council for Traditional Music held in Townsville, Queensland, in 1988. As the rifle suggests, papers were concerned with documentation of music and dance and its use in the living tradition. Moyle states in her introduction that the authors discussed their own view of the theme and most of them used the term documentation as a cover term to include several aspects of the theme. These include the objectives of fieldwork, as well as the end-products such as field notes, published reports, sound recordings, photographs, films and video tapes, notation of musical sounds and dance movements, analysis, and research which may eventually appear as publications.