Making Aboriginal Men And Music In Central Australia Se Ottosson by Åse Ottosson 9781474224628, 9781474224611, 9781474224659, 1474224628, 147422461X, 1474224652 instant download after payment.

This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts - an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements, small non-indigenous towns, and tours beyond the musicians' homeland - the author challenges existing scholarly, political and popular understandings of Australian Aboriginal music, men, and related indigenous matters in terms of radical social, cultural and racial difference.
Based on extensive anthropological field research among Aboriginal rock, country and reggae musicians in small towns and remote desert settlements in Central Australia, the book investigates how Aboriginal musicians experience and articulate various aspects of their male and indigenous sense of selves as they make music and engage with indigenous and non-indigenous people, practices, places, and sets of values.
Making Aboriginal Men and Music is a highly original, intimate study which advances our understanding of contemporary indigenous and male identity formation within Aboriginal Australian society. Providing new analytical insights for scholars and students in fields such as social and cultural anthropology, cultural studies, popular music, and gender studies, this engaging text makes a significant contribution to the study of indigenous identity formation in remote Australia and beyond.
Based on extensive anthropological field research among Aboriginal rock, country and reggae musicians in small towns and remote desert settlements in Central Australia, Åse Ottosson develops an ethnographically based argument for more open-ended conceptual approaches to the crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood and music. Approaching popular music as an intercultural mediating arena for complex, seemingly incongruous articulations of Aboriginal and male selves, Ottosson explores analytical themes rarely considered in relation to indigenous life in remote regions, where people continue to organize aspects of their lives and relations according to ancestral norms. Firmly grounded in the desert men's day-to-day realities and music activities in four different socio-musical settings - an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements, non-indigenous regional towns, and on tours beyond the musicians' homelands - Ottosson sets out to challenge scholarly, political and popular understandings of Australian Aboriginal music, men and other indigenous matters in terms of radical difference between indigenous and non-indigenous social, cultural and racial domains. Drawing on theory and ethnography in the anthropology of popular music, Aboriginal Australia, indigenous studies, masculinity, gender, ethnicity and race, Ottosson provides new insights into how perceptions and expectations of what oneself and different others are, and can become, take shape in intercultural and gendered processes in shared social fields of practice.