FROM A DISTANCE
Aboriginal Music in the Maningrida Community and on their Internet Site
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v4i1.28727Keywords:
Aboriginal musical culture, music and cyberspaceAbstract
Murray Garde's article combines a study of the Aboriginal musical culture of the Maningrida area, in Arnhem Land (Northern Territory, Australia), with an analysis of the international responses to their world wide web site and a discussion of the manner in which (some) Internet communities can also use the medium in ways which serve to perpetuate- rather than dissipate -essentialism and myth making with regard to indigenous cultures.
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