A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 173-210

  Coleman, Elizabeth Burns ^a   Coombe, Rosemary J ^b   Macarailt, Fiona ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aboriginal Australians, songs provide dynamic proof of land ownership; Broken record subjecting 'music' to cultural rights; Brown, adopting techno determinist' position; International category of Indigenous peoples, being modern and postcolonial; Preserving indigenous 'music': rights and responsibilities; Tradition and modernity culture, works and others

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249119350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444311099.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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