Sharing John Blacking

2018 ◽  
pp. 214-238
Author(s):  
Andrea Emberly ◽  
Jennifer C. Post
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
The University ◽  
Supporting Materials

As ethnomusicological collections become accessible to individuals, communities, and institutions beyond the scope of the original collector, their contents are often repurposed, reimagined, and reinformed. With the growing engagement with repatriation by archives, individuals, and institutions, field recordings, fieldnotes, images, and other supporting materials offer tangible and intangible records of musical performance, context, and historical data to scholars and the communities that first offered their music for scholarly research. Drawing from the Vhavenda materials in the John Blacking collection housed at the University of Western Australia, this chapter uses two case studies, on children’s music and musical instruments, to explore some of the myriad issues surrounding the repatriation of a historical ethnomusicological collection. The goal is to help shape how future archivists, scholars, and communities engage with archiving and repatriating ethnomusicological collections.

Studying Sonorous Objects to Develop Frameworks for Improvisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-377
Author(s):  
Sam Mcauliffe
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Musique Concrete ◽  
The Way ◽  
Performance Strategies

French musique concrète artist Pierre Schaeffer pioneered new ways of listening to and studying sound. His study and manipulation of recorded sounds to create music changed the way contemporary musicians, from a multitude of disciplines, approach making music. Additionally, Schaeffer’s treatise on acousmatic listening to sonorous objects has deeply influenced contemporary sound studies. In this article, I elucidate how musique concrète has informed my practice-led research project,Looking Awry– from which I will discuss two case studies. I outline how acousmatic listening to field recordings from everyday environments informed the development of performance strategies that guide improvised musical performance; a malleable practice that can be applied to a variety of performance settings.

scholarly journals Work Placements in Masters of Translation: Five Case Studies from the University of Western Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 532-547
Author(s):  
Hélène Jaccomard
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Job Readiness ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
Vocational Studies ◽  
Masters Students

In Australia work placements are an essential part of most postgraduate qualifications in Translation Studies as a way to guarantee graduates’ job-readiness. Work placements, however, are not always run ethically and efficiently. This research paper analyzes the pragmatic and theoretical aspects of professional placements in Translation Studies, and reports on work placements of five Masters students at the University of Western Australia. The students’ experiences were diverse and proved that safeguards need to be put in place for work placements to be successful tripartite collaborations between universities, trainees and hosts. Flexibility and students’ autonomy seemed to play an important part in the success of work placement arrangements. Both work supervisor and subject coordinator must be properly prepared for their tasks, perhaps taking guidance from their counterparts in vocational studies. Nonetheless, all students in these cases studies were confronted with real-life issues that translators have to routinely solve and this rapidly increased their job-readiness.

Teaching Computer Based Historical Data Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Historical Data Analysis ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

A case study ofa third year course in the Department of Economic and Social History in the University of Edinburgh isusedto considerandhighlightaspects of good practice in the teaching of computer-assisted historical data analysis.

Teachers as Agents of the Repatriation of Music and Cultural Heritage

2018 ◽  
pp. 282-302
Author(s):  
Patricia Shehan Campbell ◽  
J. Christopher Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Culture Centered ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Culture Of Origin ◽  
Musical Heritage

As the movement to repatriate music from archives gathers steam, the question of how to effectively disseminate the music to people in the culture of origin becomes a pressing issue. This chapter argues that K–12 teachers have a distinctive ability to reintroduce archival music, through three major approaches. In “close-by child-songs by children,” teachers design lessons that incorporate field recordings of children’s music from their home culture, making the music child-centered (and culture-centered). In “child-songs from further afield,” lessons include archived children’s music that is not from the home cultures of the students; such lessons can highlight the similarities across cultures of children’s music. In “adult cultural heritage music,” teachers use the recordings of adults’ musicking experiences in the culture of origin. As such, the music of children is not represented, but the adult musical heritage is disseminated. Examples of these pedagogical approaches to repatriation are provided.

scholarly journals Obituary

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Andrew A Burbige
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
The University

Albert Russell Main, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, had a most distinguished career as a scientist and public figure and greatly influenced the course of science and nature conservation, particularly in Western Australia.

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