Maintaining grandmothers' law: Female song partners in Yanyuwa culture

Musicology Australia

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 76-98

  Mackinlay, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 0007507223     PISSN: 08145857     EISSN: 1949453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08145857.2000.10415915     Document Type: Article

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