“Not Really a Musical Instrument?” Locating the Gumleaf as Acoustic Actant and Environmental Icon

Leaf instruments have occupied a post-European contact role in constituting Australian societal networks, and their epistemologies reflect native/exotic binaries in the species selected by Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians respectively. Accordingly, this essay examines some musical application...

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Main Author: Robin Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-05-01
Series:Societies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/3/2/224