Scotty Martin's Jadmi Junba: a Song Series from the Kimberley Region of Northwest Australia (1).: An article from: Oceania
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Author(s)Sally Treloyn
PublisherUniversity of Sydney
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From the author: Barwick (1990) finds that, in Central Australian performance, whilst text and melody in isolation are relatively fixed, 'there is immense variability in their combination, which is accomplished by what may be crudely characterised as a process of expansion and contraction of the melody to accommodate texts of different lengths' (Barwick 1990:61). Following musicological examinations by both Barwick (Barwick 1989, 1990 and 1995) and Keogh (Keogh 1995) which focus on identifying principles that underlie this process of expansion and contraction, the paper presented here looks at songs of the junba genre, composed and performed by Ngarinyin elder, Scotty Martin, in the North central Kimberley. In addition, it is suggested in this paper that the style of musicological analysis developed by Barwick and Keogh has relevance beyond the discipline of musical analysis, as its results allow the analyst and reader to begin to trace relationships between creative processes active in the moment of performance with 'patterns and roles' evident in other aspects of the music-makers' ways of being in the world.
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Title: Scotty Martin's Jadmi Junba: a Song Series from the Kimberley Region of Northwest Australia (1).
Author: Sally Treloyn
Publication:Oceania (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: 73 Issue: 3 Page: 208(13)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
From the author: Barwick (1990) finds that, in Central Australian performance, whilst text and melody in isolation are relatively fixed, 'there is immense variability in their combination, which is accomplished by what may be crudely characterised as a process of expansion and contraction of the melody to accommodate texts of different lengths' (Barwick 1990:61). Following musicological examinations by both Barwick (Barwick 1989, 1990 and 1995) and Keogh (Keogh 1995) which focus on identifying principles that underlie this process of expansion and contraction, the paper presented here looks at songs of the junba genre, composed and performed by Ngarinyin elder, Scotty Martin, in the North central Kimberley. In addition, it is suggested in this paper that the style of musicological analysis developed by Barwick and Keogh has relevance beyond the discipline of musical analysis, as its results allow the analyst and reader to begin to trace relationships between creative processes active in the moment of performance with 'patterns and roles' evident in other aspects of the music-makers' ways of being in the world.
Citation Details
Title: Scotty Martin's Jadmi Junba: a Song Series from the Kimberley Region of Northwest Australia (1).
Author: Sally Treloyn
Publication:Oceania (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: 73 Issue: 3 Page: 208(13)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
