F Magowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Magowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Magowan |
| SIGNATURE | MAGOWAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0391-6826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social and emotional wellbeing in an Australian choir of people with disabilities
Emotion Curves
The “emotion curve” is a creative methodology that asks research participants to express in graphic form changes in their emotional responses over time, reflecting on a given time period or on a particular activity or event (in our case, music-based activities). This methodology was developed as part of our research with community music-making NGO Musicians Without Borders at their “Music Bridge” participatory music and movement training program …
Sonic Histories of Occupation
This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the world, Sonic Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and…
Knowing-through-Performing
Music may be considered a form of "knotting," as Ingold (2015, 18) puts it, in which "contrary forces of tension and friction are productive of generative outcomes." Interdisciplinary approaches to performative ways of knowing have grown exponentially since Blacking's (1973) ethnomusicological research among the Venda in the late 1950s. Studies in sound, sense, and performativity have flourished in a multitude of strands and contested positionali…
The Anthropology of Sex
Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more recent analyses of gay sex, transsexualism, and the newly visible forms of contemporary sexuality in the West. The Anthropology of Sex draws on the comparative field research of anthropologists to examine the relationship between sex as identity, practice and experience. Sexual cultures vary enormously and, while often th…
Song as gift and capital
This chapter examines how intercultural processes of Pentecostal Christianity and the politics of Yolngu obligation and reciprocity have influenced Christian congregational music as gift exchange and symbolic capital in a neoliberal economy in northern Australia. It explores how congregational music-making is a locally-informed ‘currency’ with the potential to negotiate concepts of Aboriginality, transnational relationships, and intercultural exc…
The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What
Globalisation and Indigenous Christianity
Indigenous societies have responded to a legacy of missionisation, universalist Christian beliefs and global contemporary Christian music through their own expressions of worship in a myriad of ways. This article considers the role of emotions in Australian Aboriginal expressions of contemporary Christian music amongst Yolngu in the Northern Territory. Moral obligations to kin and land are strategically embodied in Yolngu traditional ritual perfo…
“It is God who Speaks in the Thunder . . .”
The connection between Christianity and the ancestral law of Aboriginal culture has generated considerable debate within Australian Christianity. I explore the intersubjective flow between faith and fear emergent within these two systems and show how external influences have impacted ruptures of ontological thought and experience. These ruptures have both emerged from and shaped social and political change for Yolngu from Galiwin’ku in north‐east…
The aesthetics of breeding
Syncretism or Sychronicity? Remapping the Yolngu Feel of Place
For Christian Yolngu in Arnhem Land visions shape the imagined, embodied and affective experiences of places of danger, illness, healing and general wellbeing. In this paper, I argue that Yolngu have consistently constructed their Christian faith through visions stemming from an ancestral aesthetic embodied in the environment. As a result, religious ideology and social action have sometimes been seen as syncretic, raising questions about how Yoln…
Shadows of Song
This paper provides an argument that research on women's crying‐songs in north east Arnhem Land can be effectively analysed as a series of shadow‐dances between the researcher, the singer and the performance context. Within this framework, it explores the processes of transmission and reception of a selection of crying‐song texts from one of the most highly regarded female performers in the region. As singing is a powerful force in the making of …
Syncretism or Sychronicity? Remapping the Yolngu Feel of Place
For Christian Yolngu in Arnhem Land visions shape the imagined, embodied and affective experiences of places of danger, illness, healing and general wellbeing. In this paper, I argue that Yolngu have consistently constructed their Christian faith through visions stemming from an ancestral aesthetic embodied in the environment. As a result, religious ideology and social action have sometimes been seen as syncretic, raising questions about how Yoln…
Dancing with a Difference
This paper argues that indigenous dance is a poetic politics of cross‐cultural encounter that engages Aboriginal identities with those of the Australian nation. I question the nature of this encounter in terms of a performative dialogue that is both musically and kinesically presented by indigenous communities and ‘translated’ into political discourse by the government. The sentiments of ‘translation’ raise questions as to how local ritual expres…
Dancing with a Difference
The joy of mourning
The Hymnody of the Harrist Church among the Dida of South-Central Ivory Coast (1913-1949)
Singing the Light
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion
Film review
Jungayi—Caring for Country Jungayi—Caring for Country. Directed and edited by Penny McDonald; produced by Claire Smith; camera: Warwick Thorne; sound: George Hanna. English narration and subtitling of Jawoyn and Ngalkbon languages. Distributed by International Federation of Rock Art Organisations, PO. Box 216, Caulfield South, Vic., Australia 3162.1992, 27 minutes, color, VHS‐NTSC and VHS‐PAL, sale U.S. $32
KRABILL, James, R., The Hymnody of the Harrist Church Among the Dida of South-Central Ivory Coast (1913-1949), Frankfurt, Peter Lange, 1995
Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific. International Studies in Religion and Society, 26
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion
The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What
The joy of mourning
Knowing-through-Performing
Music may be considered a form of "knotting," as Ingold (2015, 18) puts it, in which "contrary forces of tension and friction are productive of generative outcomes." Interdisciplinary approaches to performative ways of knowing have grown exponentially since Blacking's (1973) ethnomusicological research among the Venda in the late 1950s. Studies in sound, sense, and performativity have flourished in a multitude of strands and contested positionali…
Singing the Light
KRABILL, James, R., The Hymnody of the Harrist Church Among the Dida of South-Central Ivory Coast (1913-1949), Frankfurt, Peter Lange, 1995
Film review
Jungayi—Caring for Country Jungayi—Caring for Country. Directed and edited by Penny McDonald; produced by Claire Smith; camera: Warwick Thorne; sound: George Hanna. English narration and subtitling of Jawoyn and Ngalkbon languages. Distributed by International Federation of Rock Art Organisations, PO. Box 216, Caulfield South, Vic., Australia 3162.1992, 27 minutes, color, VHS‐NTSC and VHS‐PAL, sale U.S. $32
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion
The Hymnody of the Harrist Church among the Dida of South-Central Ivory Coast (1913-1949)
Singing the Light
The joy of mourning
Dancing with a Difference
This paper argues that indigenous dance is a poetic politics of cross‐cultural encounter that engages Aboriginal identities with those of the Australian nation. I question the nature of this encounter in terms of a performative dialogue that is both musically and kinesically presented by indigenous communities and ‘translated’ into political discourse by the government. The sentiments of ‘translation’ raise questions as to how local ritual expres…
Dancing with a Difference
Syncretism or Sychronicity? Remapping the Yolngu Feel of Place
For Christian Yolngu in Arnhem Land visions shape the imagined, embodied and affective experiences of places of danger, illness, healing and general wellbeing. In this paper, I argue that Yolngu have consistently constructed their Christian faith through visions stemming from an ancestral aesthetic embodied in the environment. As a result, religious ideology and social action have sometimes been seen as syncretic, raising questions about how Yoln…
Shadows of Song
This paper provides an argument that research on women's crying‐songs in north east Arnhem Land can be effectively analysed as a series of shadow‐dances between the researcher, the singer and the performance context. Within this framework, it explores the processes of transmission and reception of a selection of crying‐song texts from one of the most highly regarded female performers in the region. As singing is a powerful force in the making of …
Syncretism or Sychronicity? Remapping the Yolngu Feel of Place
For Christian Yolngu in Arnhem Land visions shape the imagined, embodied and affective experiences of places of danger, illness, healing and general wellbeing. In this paper, I argue that Yolngu have consistently constructed their Christian faith through visions stemming from an ancestral aesthetic embodied in the environment. As a result, religious ideology and social action have sometimes been seen as syncretic, raising questions about how Yoln…
“It is God who Speaks in the Thunder . . .”
The connection between Christianity and the ancestral law of Aboriginal culture has generated considerable debate within Australian Christianity. I explore the intersubjective flow between faith and fear emergent within these two systems and show how external influences have impacted ruptures of ontological thought and experience. These ruptures have both emerged from and shaped social and political change for Yolngu from Galiwin’ku in north‐east…
The aesthetics of breeding
Globalisation and Indigenous Christianity
Indigenous societies have responded to a legacy of missionisation, universalist Christian beliefs and global contemporary Christian music through their own expressions of worship in a myriad of ways. This article considers the role of emotions in Australian Aboriginal expressions of contemporary Christian music amongst Yolngu in the Northern Territory. Moral obligations to kin and land are strategically embodied in Yolngu traditional ritual perfo…
Song as gift and capital
This chapter examines how intercultural processes of Pentecostal Christianity and the politics of Yolngu obligation and reciprocity have influenced Christian congregational music as gift exchange and symbolic capital in a neoliberal economy in northern Australia. It explores how congregational music-making is a locally-informed ‘currency’ with the potential to negotiate concepts of Aboriginality, transnational relationships, and intercultural exc…
The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What
The Anthropology of Sex
Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more recent analyses of gay sex, transsexualism, and the newly visible forms of contemporary sexuality in the West. The Anthropology of Sex draws on the comparative field research of anthropologists to examine the relationship between sex as identity, practice and experience. Sexual cultures vary enormously and, while often th…
Emotion Curves
The “emotion curve” is a creative methodology that asks research participants to express in graphic form changes in their emotional responses over time, reflecting on a given time period or on a particular activity or event (in our case, music-based activities). This methodology was developed as part of our research with community music-making NGO Musicians Without Borders at their “Music Bridge” participatory music and movement training program …
Sonic Histories of Occupation
This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the world, Sonic Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and…
Knowing-through-Performing
Music may be considered a form of "knotting," as Ingold (2015, 18) puts it, in which "contrary forces of tension and friction are productive of generative outcomes." Interdisciplinary approaches to performative ways of knowing have grown exponentially since Blacking's (1973) ethnomusicological research among the Venda in the late 1950s. Studies in sound, sense, and performativity have flourished in a multitude of strands and contested positionali…
Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific. International Studies in Religion and Society, 26
Social and emotional wellbeing in an Australian choir of people with disabilities
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works)