MUSIC 2030 - Indigenous Music: Roots & Key Concepts

This course introduces students to the music of Indigenous Australia, and examines the centrality of music and interrelated expressive forms to Indigenous systems of knowledge and sociality. It explores the relationship music to Indigenous understandings of country, authority, family, spirituality and the arts across a varied range of contexts for cultural maintenance, transformation and reclamation. Students gain a critical understanding of Australian Indigenous music, as well as related scholarly literature and sources by Indigenous commentators, and are introduced to arising implications for cross-cultural discourses and research.