Fiona Magowan: 2 books

Book cover of Telling Stories

Telling Stories

Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

by Bain Attwood, Fiona Magowan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song, dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past. Telling Stories...
Book cover of Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song, and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land
by Fiona Magowan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

This collection shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past and more recently to other external forces beyond local control. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity; at contemporary cultural performance as a contested domain; and...
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