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

Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of
the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry …

In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra,
Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research …

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

Singing is an activity that happens in every society. But the ways that texts and music align
with each other and the ways meanings are conveyed, and how the activity fits into larger …

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

Background Yawulyu and awelye are cognate names for women's country-based
ceremonies in central Australia. The term yawulyu is a genre name for land-based women's …

Based in oral traditions and song cycles, contemporary Aboriginal Australian poetry is full of
allusions to the environment. Not merely a physical backdrop for human activities, the …

Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-
formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical …

Niraval is a form of virtuosic musicolinguistic improvisation in Carnatic music whereby a line
within a song is repeated in various melodic and rhythmic manifestations within the rāgam …