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... Making his way home from the 1923 Pan-Pacific Science Congress, British ethnologist Alfred C. Haddon stopped at a remote railway siding on the Trans-Australian Railway to Perth. In the space of twenty minutes, he cut locks of hair from the head of an unidentified “young Aboriginal man...

... This chapter describes how country music has come to occupy a distinct and privileged place in Aboriginal public culture, sounding an expressive counterpoint to Aboriginal urbanization, labor migration, and other forms of movement and mobility. For decades now country music performers have...

... This chapter focuses on the work of the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA). This organization manages a remote satellite network of thirty Indigenous broadcasting facilities across five distinct language groups in the Northern Territory. The chapter analyzes a distinct...