The University of Queensland

Recirculating Indigenous traveling songs (2024–2029)

Abstract:

This project aims to develop new understandings of how unrestricted Indigenous traveling songs have spread across vast geographic and linguistic boundaries in Australia, investigating ways these songs can contribute to greater social connectedness today. It intends to energise collaborative networks across Indigenous communities, language centres, and holding institutions around the world. Forging models to reinvigorate the performance of traveling songs across a wide and diverse range of interconnected localities, this project should advance the potential for Indigenous performance culture to contribute to language revitalisation, cultural identity, and the facilitation of cross-cultural diplomacy in national and international contexts

Grant type:

ARC Discovery Indigenous

Researchers:

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  Professor Clint Bracknell

  Honorary Professor
  

  School of Languages and Cultures

  Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Funded by:

Australian Research Council