Fisher Daniel Fisher

Voice and Its Doubles (eBook, PDF)

Media and Music in Northern Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning in the early 1980s Aboriginal Australians found in music, radio, and filmic media a means to make themselves heard across the country and to insert themselves into the center of Australian political life. In The Voice and Its Doubles Daniel Fisher analyzes the great success of this endeavor, asking what is at stake in the sounds of such media for Aboriginal Australians. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in northern Australia, Fisher describes the close proximity of musical media, shifting forms of governmental intervention, and those public expressions of intimacy and kinship that suffuse Aboriginal Australian social life. Today's Aboriginal media include genres of country music and hip-hop; radio requests and broadcast speech; visual graphs of a digital audio timeline; as well as the statistical media of audience research and the discursive and numerical figures of state audits and cultural policy formation. In each of these diverse instances the mediatized voice has become a site for overlapping and at times discordant forms of political, expressive, and institutional creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374428
• Artikelnr.: 54788835

Autorenporträt

Daniel Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the coeditor of Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Prologue. Staging the Voice  xiii
Introduction  1
1. Mediating Kinship: Radio's Cultural Poetics  43
2. Aboriginal Country  80
3. From the Studio to the Street  114
4. From Radio Skid Row to the Reconciliation Station  143
5. Speaking For or Selling Out? Dilemmas of Aboriginal Cultural Brokerage 
182
6. A Body for the Voice  222
Conclusion. An Immanent Alterity  250
Notes  267
References  287
Index  307