Fisher The Voice and Its Doubles

Media and Music in Northern Australia
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7442-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

In The Voice and its Doubles Daniel Fisher explores the production of Aboriginal Australian audio media, showing how the mediatization of the Aboriginal voice provides the means to representing and linking Indigenous communities, maintaining distinct linguistic and cultural traditions, and gaining access to Australian political life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.