MUSIC 3001 - Ideas in Indigenous Music: Advanced Concepts

This course introduces students to Australian Indigenous epistemologies of music and examines, in detail, the contextualisation of music and interrelated expressive forms within Indigenous systems of knowledge and sociality. Students undertake advanced explorations of music's epistemic relationship to Indigenous understandings of country, authority, family, spirituality and the arts across a varied range of applied contexts for cultural maintenance, transformation and reclamation. Students gain a critical understanding of Australian Indigenous music research, as informed by related scholarly literature and sources by Indigenous commentators, and a sophisticated ability to discern and articulate arising implications for cross-cultural discourses and research.