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- Title
The ongoing debate about women playing didjeridu: how a musical icon can become an instrument of remembering and forgetting.
- Authors
Neuenfeldt, Karl
- Abstract
An ongoing debate surrounding the use of the didjeridu is the appropriateness of women playing it. This article explores examples of the quite diverse public discourse on the didjeridu in Australia (and elsewhere) but also some of the paradoxes informing the debate. The debate is characterised herein as part of a broader process of the construction of social memory via what is remembered or forgotten when the didjeridu is discussed or used. It is argued that, although gender is one dimension of the debate, there are other pertinent issues that need to be recognised as pivotal.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; DIDJERIDU; WOMEN musicians; DIDJERIDU music; COLLECTIVE memory; GENDER; WIND instruments
- Publication
Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2006, Vol 2006, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0729-4352
- Publication type
Article