Researchers and collecting institutions have long been concerned with issues of
sustainability and accessibility in relation to the audio and video recordings, metadata and …

The more than 250 languages spoken in Australia prior to the nineteenth century exhibit
both striking similarities to one another and remarkable variation. The exponential increase …

The culture of the Tiwi Islands, northern Australia, has been the subject of much
anthropological literature but none focuses on music. Since 2007 I have been working with …

Increasing interest in the repatriation of song recordings to cultural heritage communities
has opened up new possibilities for archives, researchers and local individual, community …

The Symposium explored a broad range of possibilities for understanding, recording and
circulating Indigenous performance traditions. These included:• performing and analysing …

We discuss the development of the C'ek'aedi Hwnax Ahtna Regional Linguistic and
Ethnographic Archive, located in the Copper River valley of south central Alaska. C'ek'aedi …

Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural
participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced …

Sound recording plays a prominent role in cultural heritage work in the Pacific region,
supported by sound archives and institutional collections that serve to preserve this …

This article uses examples from first fieldwork experience to illustrate the need for better
training of graduate students in linguistics on the subject of fieldwork, especially in the …

Through an analysis of Tiwi song composition techniques and comparison between
performances recorded over the last hundred years, I give, for the first time in the literature, a …