The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands | Author: Genevieve Campbell books Institute of Modern Art

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The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands | Author: Genevieve Campbell books Institute of Modern ArtApproximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra. In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim these archived songs and song texts. The Old Songs are Always New explores their return home to the Tiwi Islands and reveals that the fundamentally