Ethnomusicology research projects
Hmong recording project
Catherine Falk and the Hmong community in Melbourne
This recording project will create an audiovisual record of current Hmong musical and ceremonial practices during New Year celebration and the rituals of birth, courtship, marriage and funeral...
Inscribing Asia in Australia’s musical history: Australia’s on shore musical engagement with Asia
Catherine Falk
This project aims to uncover the deep histories of music-making and musical contact between Asian sojourners, indentured labourers and immigrants, Indigenous Australians and white settlers...
Sustaining musical and cultural identity in cyberspace
Catherine Falk
Ethnomusicologists have been quick to embrace the Internet for preserving and disseminating information about the musical products of "others"...
Ragamala Miniatures in the NGV
Reis Flora
Dr Reis Flora is researching details of twelve ragamala miniature paintings from southern Rajasthan (ragamala = a garland of musical modes), dated in the mid-eighteenth century, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria...
Source materials on studies of music cultures in Burma and Assam
Reis Flora
A translated edition of Curt Sach's 1971 Die Musikinstrumente Birmas ad Assams in K. Ethnographischen Museum zu Münche...
Tigers, lions and humans: a history of rivalry, conflict, reverence and love
Joseph Jordania
This research examines singing and drumming as defense strategies of early hominids against the big cats...
