Dancing in shadows : histories of Nyungar performance
Haebich, Anna2018
Book
Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed them, and generously share their culture, history and language in theatre.
Main title:
Dancing in shadows : histories of Nyungar performance / Anna Haebich.
Author:
Haebich, Anna, author
Imprint:
Crawley, WA : UWA Publishing, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
xix, 405 pages : illustrations, portraits : 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-385) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Dr Richard Walley OAM ; interviewers Anna Haebich and Terri-ann White -- Introduction -- 1. Performance culture and activism -- 2. Tourism, sports and official welcomes -- 3. Mission music making -- 4. performing in 'unexpected places' -- 5. Nyungar theatre -- 6. Bindjareh Pinjarra: a play about the massacre -- 7. Wanjoo! Yarning witih Gianna Williams.
ISBN:
9781742589718
Dewey class:
305.89915791.099411HIS/3
Language:
English
Subject:
Noongar (Australian people)Dance, Aboriginal AustralianAboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Stirling -- Social life and customsAboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Stirling -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- InterviewsAboriginal Australians -- Songs and musicAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection
BRN:
473130