Table of Contents

From 'Navajo' to 'Taba Naba': Unravelling the travels and metamorphosis of a popular Torres Strait Islander song; Home Among the Gum Trees: An ethnography of Yolngu musical performance in mainstream contexts; Music of the Torres Strait; Mabo, Music and Culture; Dancing, into Film: Exploring Yolngu motion, ritual and cosmology in the Yirrkala Film Project; A Rally at Ramingining: The 'uniting' force of music and dance in a Yolngu Christian context; Grand Concerts, Anzac Days and Evening Entertainments: Glimpses of musical culture on Thursday Island, Queensland, 1900-1945; Making the Journey In: Opening up spaces for performing, teaching and learning Aboriginal performance traditions; Musical Times: The interplay between metrical time and real time in a Central Arnhem Land clan song series; Index.

About the Author

Fiona Magowan is lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast and continues to research Yolngu music and dance in northeast Arnhem Land. Karl Neuenfeldt is Associate Professor in Contemporary Communication at Central Queensland University. He is active as a music researcher, musician and producer.