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UW Ethnomusicology Archives audio recordings: Stephen A. (Stephen Aubrey) Wild recordings (Songs of Aboriginal Australia), 1987
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Wild, Stephen A. (Stephen Aubrey), 1941-
- Title
- UW Ethnomusicology Archives audio recordings: Stephen A. (Stephen Aubrey) Wild recordings (Songs of Aboriginal Australia)
- Dates
- 198719871987
- Quantity
- 2 items : EC - 2 reels (7 1/2 ips, 1/2 tr. stereo, 7"); WT - 2 reels (7 1/2 ips, 1/2 tr. stereo, 10"); Duration: 1:45:03; copy of contents list on cassette wrapper; notes from Wild
- Collection Number
- 1987035
- Summary
- Copied from cassette belonging to Stephen Wild (tape published by AIAS to accompany monograph of same name)
- Repository
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University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access is restricted.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Stephen A. Wild is a researcher and author whose work focuses primarily on Australian Indigenous music. He is a senior research fellow at the Australian National University School of Music and former president of the Musicological Society of Australia. He was a recipient of the Centenary Medal of the Australian Government for Services to Aboriginal Studies. He has published numerous academic articles and contributed to multiple encyclopedias.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Archive copy from cassette (AGFA FEI) tape accompanies monograph: Songs of Aboriginal Australia / M. Clunies Ross, T. Donaldson, and S. Wild, eds. / Oceania monograph 32, 1987 (monograph in Archives on reference shelf)
Additional information from proofs for tape notes - tape edited by Stephen Wild; sound mixing by Paddy Naughton.
Contents:
87-35.1 - See notes provided by S. Wild - list recordists, locations, dates, performers, AIAS tape nos., and explanations for each song.
87-35.2 - "Song from Goulburn Island & the Immediate Mainland, Western Arnhem land."
Spoken introduction on tape - songs contained in article "Other Creatures in Human Guise and Vice Versa: A Dilemma in Understanding" by Ronald M. Berndt - numbered according to appearance in paper and recorded in field in 1961 and 1964.
Documentation: Monograph
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Australian Aborigines
- Ethnomusicology
Geographical Names
- Australia
- Oceania
