Australian Art Orchestra: Crossing Roper Bar -
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Published on: 5/21/2006
Last Visited: 2/7/2008
As Professor Adrian Walter from Charles Darwin University puts it, "the traditional music is about eight rungs higher up the ladder than the popular music most of the bands are playing", so it's not just a cultural thing it's also about the intrinsic musical qualities inherent to the traditional forms which all comes back to the AAO's reasons for wanting to collaborate.
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• Neparrnga Gumbula, a Yolngu elder who holds the Liya-Naarra'mirri Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a project leader of the National Recording Project. • Professor Adrian Walter, Dean Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Charles Darwin University • Dr Aaron Corn, formerly lecturer in Anthropology and Australian Indigenous Studies at University of Melbourne who was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship by the Australian Research Council and is now in the Department of Music at the University of Sydney.
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