Indigenous Music and Dance
Cultural maintenance, transmission and transformation in the twentieth century
This symposium invites a range of perspectives on the neglected and fragmented documentary histories of Indigenous music and dance performances in Australia and globally.
Event details
Date: 13 - 14 December 2018
Venue: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
About the Symposium
Indigenous Music and Dance is hosted by researchers working on a new project documenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and dance in Australia’s ‘long’ assimilation era (1935-75), which aims to excavate archival records and combine them with oral histories, connecting historical objects with living people, and performative responses to the historical records. The symposium will showcase performance-centred frameworks for understanding cultural agency in Indigenous histories.
Confirmed speakers
- Jacqueline Shea-Murphy, University of California (Riverside)
- Jacinta Tobin, Dharug performer and educator
- Anna Haebich, Curtin University
- Alec Morgan, Macquarie University
- Shannon Foster, University of Technology, Sydney
- Amanda Harris, University of Sydney
- Linda Barwick, University of Sydney
- Jakelin Troy, University of Sydney
- Matt Poll, University of Sydney
- Rachel Fensham, University of Melbourne
- Tiriki Onus, University of Melbourne