Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
18 - African Musics in Australia
from Part III - Diversities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
Summary
African musical practices in Australia are highly diverse and multifaceted. This chapter examines the work of a Senegalese Australian artist across contexts ranging from a new multimedia arts initiative, music festivals, community events and schools. Drawing on evidence from ethnographic research as well as performer and educator experiences, it shows that music provides an important space through which to explore the complexities of diasporic experience in Australia and to engage in self-representation countering dominant negative portrayals of Africans in Australian media and political discourse. Through music, African Australian artists negotiate ideas about cultural specificity and universality, maintaining connections to African cultural practices while forging new connections and forms of creativity in contemporary Australia.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 280 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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Marsh, K., Ingram, C. and Dieckmann, S., ‘Bridging Musical Worlds: Musical Collaboration between Student Musician-Educators and South Sudanese Australian Youth’ in H. Westerlund, S. Karlsen and Partti, (eds.), Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education (Cham: Springer, 2020) pp. 115–34.Google Scholar
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