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   PUBLICATIONS [Select]: Present - 1997

EDITED BOOKS:

Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance from Torres Strait and Arnhem Land (with Fiona Magowan) Aboriginal Studies Press 2005

Bundaberg: A Regional Perspective (with Alex Grady and Linda Hungerford) Centre for Social Science Research: Rockhampton 2000

A Solitary Pursuit with Friends: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the Bundaberg Art Society (with Mark Dutney) Bundaberg Art Society: Bundaberg 1999

The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet John Libbey/Perfect Beat Publications (Australia) & Indiana University Press (North America) 1997

EDITED JOURNALS:

Issue Editor: The World of Music Indigenous Popular Music in North America: Continuations and Innovations" 44(1) 2002

Issue Editor: Journal of Intercultural Studies Special Issue on Music-based Research 22(2) 2001

Co-Editor: Perfect Beat (The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture) 2000 and 2001

Issue Editor: The World of Music "Old Instruments, New Contexts" 40(2) 1998

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

Editorial Board Transformations (Ejournal of Regional Social and Cultural Change)
Former Co-editor Perfect Beat (The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture) (Macquarie University, Sydney Australia)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

“Grand Concerts, Anzac Days and Evening Entertainments: Glimpses of Music Culture on Thursday Island, Queensland 1900-1945” (with Steve Mullins) Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance from Torres Strait and Arnhem Land (with Fiona Magowan) Aboriginal Studies Press 2005 96-117

“From Navajo to Taba Naba: Unravelling the Travels and Metamorphosis of a Popular Torres Strait Islander Song” (with Martin Nakata) Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance from Torres Strait and Arnhem Land (with Fiona Magowan) Aboriginal Studies Press 2005 12-28

"Nigel Pegrum, "'Didjeridu-Friendly Sections', and What Constitutes an 'Indigenous' CD An Australian Case Study of Producing 'World Music' Recordings" in Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures T. Porcello and P. Greene (eds) Weslyan University Press 2005 84-102

"Mainland Torres Strait Islanders and the 'Magical Islands' of the Torres Strait: The Music of Gaetano Bann as Metaphor and Remembering" (with Chris Lawe-Davies) Island Musics K. Dawes (ed) Berg 2004 137-151

“Some Historical and Contemporary Asian Elements in the Music and Performance Culture of Torres Strait” Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait, Shunukal, A., Ramsay, G., and Nagata, Y. (eds) Pandanus Publishing, ANU 2004 265-275

"The Yanni Phenomenon: Music Exotica and the Making of Multi-Media Memories" in Exotic Sounds: Tropicalism and Orientalism in Post War Popular Music P. Hayward (ed) (John Libbey/Perfect Beat Publications) 1999 168-198

"Sound, Cinema and Aboriginality" (with Marj Kibby) in Knowing the Score: Australian Cinema and Music Soundtracks R. Coyle (ed) AFTRS 1998 66-77

"Yothu Yindi: Agendas and Aspirations" in Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics and Popular Music in the Contemporary Pacific P. Hayward (ed) Cassel Academic Press 1998 199-208

"The Didjeridu in the Desert: The Social Relations of an Ethnographic Object Entangled in Culture and Commerce" in The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet K. Neuenfeldt (ed) John Libbey/Perfect Beat Publications 1997 107-122

REFEREED ARTICLES:

"The On-going Debate about Women Playing Didjeridu: How a Musical Icon can become an Instrument of Remembering and Forgetting" Australian Aboriginal Studies SUBMITTED MAY 06

“Negotiating and Enacting Musical Innovation and Continuity: How Some Torres Strait Islander Song Writers are Incorporating Traditional Dance Chants within Contemporary Songs” (with Lyn Costigan) The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 2004 5(2) 113-128

“The Technology, Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of a Collaborative, Transnationl Music Recording Project: Veiga, Veiga and the Intinerant Overdubs” (with Denis Crowdy)Transformations (7) 2003, http://www.cqu. edu.au/transformations

"Torres Strait Islander Music and Dance in Informal and Formal Educational Contexts in Australia" Research Studies in Music Education (with Lyn Costigan) (19) 2002 46-55

"From Silence to Celebration: Indigenous Australian Performers at the Woodford Folk Festival" World of Music 43(2-3) 2002

"An Overview of Case Studies of Contemporary Native American Music in Canada, the United States of America and on the Web World of Music" 44(1) 2002 7-10

"www.americanmusic.com: Marketing Recordings in an Interconnected World" World of Music 44(1) 2002 115-126

"Examples of Torres Strait Songs of Longing and Belonging" Journal of Australian Studies (57) 2002 111-116

"The 'Saving Grace of Social Culture': Early Popular Music and Performance Culture on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland" Queensland Review 8(2) 2001 1-20

"Cultural Politics and a Music Recording Project: Producing Strike Em!: Contemporary Voices from the Torres Strait" Journal of Intercultural Studies 22(2) 2001 133-145

"Comments on the Nexus Between Music-based Research and Intercultural Studies" Journal of Intercultural Studies 22(2) 2001 117-119

"`Our Home, Our Land ... Something to Sing About': Indigenous Popular Music as Identity Narrative" (with
Kathleen Oien) Aboriginal History 2001 27-38

"The Transformative Effects of CDs on the Australian Folk Festival Scene" Transformations 2000,http://www.cqu.edu.au/ transformations

"The Quest for a 'Magical Island': The Convergence of the Didjeridu, Aboriginal Culture, Healing and Cultural Politics in New Age Discourse" Social Analysis 42(2) 1998 73-101

"Good Vibrations?: The "Curious" Cases of the Didjeridu in Spectacle & Therapy" The World of Music 40(2) 1998 29-51

"Notes on Old Instruments in New Contexts" The World of Music 40(2) 1998 5-8

"Grassroots, Rock(s) and Reggae: Music and Mayhem at the Port Moresby Show" The Contemporary Pacific 10(2) 1998 317-343

"Sounding Silences: The Inclusion of Indigenous Popular Music in Australian Curricula" Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 19(2) 1998 201-218

"Aboriginal Didjeriduists in Australian Education: Culture Workers and Border Crossers" Journal of Intercultural Studies 19(1) 1998 5-19

"Romancing the Drone: Contemporary Didjeridu in Victoria, Australia" (with Graeme Smith) Overland (151) 1998 52-57

"The Sounds of Microsoft: The Cultural Production of Music on CD-ROMs" Convergence (The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies) 3(4) 1997 54-71

"Insults, Egos and Agendas: Notes on a Debate About Doing Research on the Internet" Perfect Beat 3(3) 1997 95-102

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES:

"The Ukulele" Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World (Cassel) 2003

"New Age Music"& "The Contemporary Didjeridu" Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (Currency Press) 2003

"The Didjeridu", David Hudson, Richard Walley, Dulcie Pitt/Georgia Lee The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture (Oxford University Press) 2000

"Indigenous Popular Music in Australia" Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World (Cassel) forthcoming

"The Didjeridu" Oxford Companion to Australian Music Oxford University Press 1997