Experimental investigations of cross‐cultural music perception and cognition reported
during the past decade are described. As globalization and Western music homogenize the …

In this chapter we outline areas of musical processing that may be universal to humans.
Music here refers to temporally structured human activities, social and individual, in the …

Music exhibits structure at multiple scales, ranging from motifs to large-scale functional
components. When inferring the structure of a piece, different listeners may attend to …

Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of
postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple Languages …

An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the
obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from …

One of the most stunning performances I ever witnessed was a djanba ceremony at
Peppimenarti near Wadeye in Australia's Northern Terri-tory in 1998. A group of about forty …

Abstract Traditional songs from Central Australia have a text set to an unvarying rhythm,
which is in contrast to songs from many other parts of Australia. This has led many …

In Australia and elsewhere, the repatriation of archival material has emerged as a common
practice amongst music researchers working with Indigenous communities. The return of …

This chapter contributes to frameworks for understanding the deep human past by
considering how expansion of attention to the present, through performance among other …

During the 1970s, the Marri Ngarr composer Pius Luckan anti bis brother Clement
Tcbinhurur createda set ofliturgical songs ('churcb lirrga') basedonthedidjeridu …