The Australian didjeridu : A late musical intrusion
1981; Routledge; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00438243.1981.9979807
ISSN1470-1375
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoAbstract The recent, non‐Aboriginal name, didjeridu (didgeridoo, digerydoo), was probably derived from sound made by this lip‐buzzed aerophone. The availability of bamboo in the north‐west of the Northern Territory suggests that the first Australian instruments, their sounds and their players belonged to this region. In a recent chronology of the rock art of the Arnhem Land Plateau, depictions of the didjeridu have been placed within the ‘post‐estuarine’ period (Chaloupka in press). In the process of its intrusion into Arnhem Land within the last 1,000 years or less, the didjeridu may have helped to preserve vestiges of earlier musical styles. Further indications of the aerophone's subsequent spread within Australia might be obtained if linguistic studies were to be made of different Aboriginal names for the instrument (organonymy). Subjects (content) of many Arnhem Land songs are appropriate to Chaloupka's temporal sequence for Arnhem Land Plateau rock art: pre‐estuarine, post‐estuarine and post‐contact (Macassan and European).
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