Karl Neuenfeldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 134406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Neuenfeldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuenfeldt |
| SIGNATURE | NEUENFELDT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The serendipity of happenstance: Interviews with David Bridie on producing Australian Indigenous music
This article is based on interviews with David Bridie. Bridie is an Australasian musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film and television composer. He has initiated numerous projects in Australasia including in Australia, specifically with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities. His non-profit organization Wantok Musik Foundation has also done numerous recording projects in the Torres Strait region, Australia, Papua N…
‘Dark complexion preferred’: Life on the road with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Australia (1894–1895) as recounted in the diary of Lucy Pizey
The unpublished diary of Lucy Pizey recounts her experiences in 1894–1895 whilst touring in Australia with the Fisk Jubilee Singers as their piano/organ accompanist. The troupe has influenced contemporary music in Australia based on their popularization of songs still being performed in genres such as spirituals and gospel. The diary provides glimpses of what ‘life on the road’ was like for a twenty-four year old, unmarried and unchaperoned Anglo…
Dark complexion preferred’: Life on the road with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Australia (1894–1895) as recounted in the diary of Lucy Pizey
The unpublished diary of Lucy Pizey recounts her experiences in 1894–1895 whilst touring in Australia with the Fisk Jubilee Singers as their piano/organ accompanist. The troupe has influenced contemporary music in Australia based on their popularization of songs still being performed in genres such as spirituals and gospel. The diary provides glimpses of what ‘life on the road’ was like for a twenty-four year old, unmarried and unchaperoned Anglo…
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of musical experiences in the breadth of musical practice that flows though Australia, including Indigenous song, art music, children's music, jazz, country, p…
Ukulele Affections and Hawaiian Family Connections: The Music and Memories of Musician/Producer Rick Cunha
Extended interview with Rick Cuhuna. Rick Cunha is a multi-instrumentalist musician, producer and songwriter with a long connection to ukulele both personally and professionally. His paternal grandfather was Sonny Cunha, a multi-talented Portuguese- Hawaiian bandleader, politician and entrepreneur as well as composer of classic Hawaiian hapa haole songs such as Hula Blues, Hapa Haole Hula Girl, Honolulu Tomboy and even the Yale University fight s…
Insults, Egos and Agendas: Notes on a Debate About Music Research on the Internet
Neuenfeldt reflects on the use of the Internet as a research source and tool
The Essentialistic, the Exotic, the Equivocal and the Absurd: The Cultural Production and Use of the Didjeridu in World Music
This article analyses the cultural production and use of the didjeridu in contemporary popular music, especially 'world music'2• The analysis is informed by two interwoven perspectives. Firstly, Feld's identification of what he terms "schizophonia to schismogenesis", that is, "how sounds are split from their sources, and how that splitting is dynamically connected to escalating cycles of distorted mutuality between local and global practices" ( 1…
The Didjeridu and the Overdub: Technologising and Transposing Aural Images of Aboriginality
This article investigates how aural 'images' of aboriginality are technologised and transposed across cultures, with special regard to the didjeridu. In doing this, the study involves consideration of both the traditional background of the didjeridu and its use and the central role of technology in contemporary music. This in turn involves study of producers and performers of didjeridu music working in non-traditional Aboriginal music and their r…
‘Our home, our land… something to sing about’: An Indigenous music recording as identity narrative
Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case, but rather the end lessly astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life (Galeano 1991:125)
Aboriginal Contemporary Music as Australian Cultural Heritage: The Black Image Band's CD, Beautiful Land and Sea
The interplay of contemporary music and cultural heritage is of particular salience to Indigenous peoples in Australia. It is not only a major site for artistic expression but also helps embody social memory. This article explores a CD, Beautiful Land and Sea, by the Black Image from Aboriginal communities on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, and argues that it is a tangible artifact of cultural heritage. The analysis draws upon Martin's framewo…
Learning to Listen When There is Too Much to Hear: Music Producing and Audio Engineering as 'Engaged Hearing
This article examines how music producers and audio engineers learn to listen in the context of a very particular form of musical work. Ethnographic interviews provide data on their acquisition of skills, strategies they devise to remain engaged with the physicality and aesthetics of sound, and the socio-cultural and psychological dimensions of their work. It comments in particular on the multi-skilling brought about by the technological changes …
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, Peter Dunbar-Hall and Chris Gibson. Karl Neuenfeldt Karl Neuenfeldt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (1): 162–164. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174435 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissio…
Negotiating and enacting musical innovation and continuity: How some torres strait islander songwriters incorporate traditional dance chants within contemporary songs
Many Indigenous peoples worldwide engage with popular music and popular music forms, often striving to find a balance between traditional and contemporary influences. This article uses ethnographic data from Australian Torres Strait Islander songwriters to explore the processes and rationales they use when incorporating traditional dance chants within contemporary songs. The research demonstrates some of their processes of innovation and continua…
Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane
Torres strait maritime songs of longing and belonging
The musical artistic expression of the Indigenous peoples in Australia is commonly connected to notions of place. Consequently, it is also linked to musical artistic expressions of longing and belonging; two affective emotions readily expressed through music and lyrics. In academic research about such notions, there have been many in-depth examinations of how Aboriginal Australians use music, both traditional and contemporary, to connect people t…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Introduction: Comments on the Nexus Between Music-based Research and Intercultural Studies
(2001). Introduction: Comments on the Nexus Between Music-based Research and Intercultural Studies. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 117-119
Cultural Politics and a Music Recording Project: Producing Strike Em!: Contemporary Voices from the Torres Strait
This article focuses on two primary processes: the role of cultural politics in the production of a Torres Strait Islander community CD; and the role of music producers as cultural brokers using music to mediate between different cultures. It provides background on the positioning of Torres Strait Islanders in Australian society and how their music is situated within the national and transnational marketing genre of 'world music'. The two process…
The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
Aboriginal Didjeriduists in Australian education: Cultural workers and border crossers
Aboriginal musicians in Australia are using music in school curricula in a unique way. Increasingly over the past decade they have been introducing Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives into schools at all levels by performing and teaching with the Aboriginal musical instrument the didjeridu. Didjeriduists are at the vanguard of introducing music‐based representations of difference and self‐representations of indigeneity at the nexus of pedagogy,…
Sounding Silences: The inclusion of Indigenous popular music in Australian education curricula
The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
The Kyana Corroboree: Cultural Production of Indigenous Ethnogenesis
This article analyzes the 1993 Kyana Corroboree of the Noongah Aborigines of Western Australia as a case study of the cultural production and cultural politics of ethnogenesis and indigeneity through public celebration. Kyana is a local example of how indigenous peoples globally experience 'ethnic reorganization,' an often inchoate, mutable process of social reproduction that encourages the survival of an ethnic group, albeit in an altered form. …
Yothu Yindi and Ganma: The cultural transposition of aboriginal agenda through metaphor and music
Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean
(1991). Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-21
The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
Cultural Politics and a Music Recording Project: Producing Strike Em!: Contemporary Voices from the Torres Strait
This article focuses on two primary processes: the role of cultural politics in the production of a Torres Strait Islander community CD; and the role of music producers as cultural brokers using music to mediate between different cultures. It provides background on the positioning of Torres Strait Islanders in Australian society and how their music is situated within the national and transnational marketing genre of 'world music'. The two process…
Aboriginal Didjeriduists in Australian education: Cultural workers and border crossers
Aboriginal musicians in Australia are using music in school curricula in a unique way. Increasingly over the past decade they have been introducing Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives into schools at all levels by performing and teaching with the Aboriginal musical instrument the didjeridu. Didjeriduists are at the vanguard of introducing music‐based representations of difference and self‐representations of indigeneity at the nexus of pedagogy,…
The Kyana Corroboree: Cultural Production of Indigenous Ethnogenesis
This article analyzes the 1993 Kyana Corroboree of the Noongah Aborigines of Western Australia as a case study of the cultural production and cultural politics of ethnogenesis and indigeneity through public celebration. Kyana is a local example of how indigenous peoples globally experience 'ethnic reorganization,' an often inchoate, mutable process of social reproduction that encourages the survival of an ethnic group, albeit in an altered form. …
Yothu Yindi and Ganma: The cultural transposition of aboriginal agenda through metaphor and music
Negotiating and enacting musical innovation and continuity: How some torres strait islander songwriters incorporate traditional dance chants within contemporary songs
Many Indigenous peoples worldwide engage with popular music and popular music forms, often striving to find a balance between traditional and contemporary influences. This article uses ethnographic data from Australian Torres Strait Islander songwriters to explore the processes and rationales they use when incorporating traditional dance chants within contemporary songs. The research demonstrates some of their processes of innovation and continua…
Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean
(1991). Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-21
Torres strait maritime songs of longing and belonging
The musical artistic expression of the Indigenous peoples in Australia is commonly connected to notions of place. Consequently, it is also linked to musical artistic expressions of longing and belonging; two affective emotions readily expressed through music and lyrics. In academic research about such notions, there have been many in-depth examinations of how Aboriginal Australians use music, both traditional and contemporary, to connect people t…
Sounding Silences: The inclusion of Indigenous popular music in Australian education curricula
Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean
(1991). Sun, sea, sex, and senoritas: “Shorthand” images of ethnicity, ethos, and gender in country songs set in the circum‐Caribbean. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-21
Yothu Yindi and Ganma: The cultural transposition of aboriginal agenda through metaphor and music
The Kyana Corroboree: Cultural Production of Indigenous Ethnogenesis
This article analyzes the 1993 Kyana Corroboree of the Noongah Aborigines of Western Australia as a case study of the cultural production and cultural politics of ethnogenesis and indigeneity through public celebration. Kyana is a local example of how indigenous peoples globally experience 'ethnic reorganization,' an often inchoate, mutable process of social reproduction that encourages the survival of an ethnic group, albeit in an altered form. …
The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
Aboriginal Didjeriduists in Australian education: Cultural workers and border crossers
Aboriginal musicians in Australia are using music in school curricula in a unique way. Increasingly over the past decade they have been introducing Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives into schools at all levels by performing and teaching with the Aboriginal musical instrument the didjeridu. Didjeriduists are at the vanguard of introducing music‐based representations of difference and self‐representations of indigeneity at the nexus of pedagogy,…
Sounding Silences: The inclusion of Indigenous popular music in Australian education curricula
The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Introduction: Comments on the Nexus Between Music-based Research and Intercultural Studies
(2001). Introduction: Comments on the Nexus Between Music-based Research and Intercultural Studies. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 117-119
Cultural Politics and a Music Recording Project: Producing Strike Em!: Contemporary Voices from the Torres Strait
This article focuses on two primary processes: the role of cultural politics in the production of a Torres Strait Islander community CD; and the role of music producers as cultural brokers using music to mediate between different cultures. It provides background on the positioning of Torres Strait Islanders in Australian society and how their music is situated within the national and transnational marketing genre of 'world music'. The two process…
Torres strait maritime songs of longing and belonging
The musical artistic expression of the Indigenous peoples in Australia is commonly connected to notions of place. Consequently, it is also linked to musical artistic expressions of longing and belonging; two affective emotions readily expressed through music and lyrics. In academic research about such notions, there have been many in-depth examinations of how Aboriginal Australians use music, both traditional and contemporary, to connect people t…
Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane
Negotiating and enacting musical innovation and continuity: How some torres strait islander songwriters incorporate traditional dance chants within contemporary songs
Many Indigenous peoples worldwide engage with popular music and popular music forms, often striving to find a balance between traditional and contemporary influences. This article uses ethnographic data from Australian Torres Strait Islander songwriters to explore the processes and rationales they use when incorporating traditional dance chants within contemporary songs. The research demonstrates some of their processes of innovation and continua…
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia, Peter Dunbar-Hall and Chris Gibson. Karl Neuenfeldt Karl Neuenfeldt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (1): 162–164. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174435 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissio…
Learning to Listen When There is Too Much to Hear: Music Producing and Audio Engineering as 'Engaged Hearing
This article examines how music producers and audio engineers learn to listen in the context of a very particular form of musical work. Ethnographic interviews provide data on their acquisition of skills, strategies they devise to remain engaged with the physicality and aesthetics of sound, and the socio-cultural and psychological dimensions of their work. It comments in particular on the multi-skilling brought about by the technological changes …
Aboriginal Contemporary Music as Australian Cultural Heritage: The Black Image Band's CD, Beautiful Land and Sea
The interplay of contemporary music and cultural heritage is of particular salience to Indigenous peoples in Australia. It is not only a major site for artistic expression but also helps embody social memory. This article explores a CD, Beautiful Land and Sea, by the Black Image from Aboriginal communities on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, and argues that it is a tangible artifact of cultural heritage. The analysis draws upon Martin's framewo…
‘Our home, our land… something to sing about’: An Indigenous music recording as identity narrative
Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case, but rather the end lessly astonishing synthesis of the contradictions of everyday life (Galeano 1991:125)
Ukulele Affections and Hawaiian Family Connections: The Music and Memories of Musician/Producer Rick Cunha
Extended interview with Rick Cuhuna. Rick Cunha is a multi-instrumentalist musician, producer and songwriter with a long connection to ukulele both personally and professionally. His paternal grandfather was Sonny Cunha, a multi-talented Portuguese- Hawaiian bandleader, politician and entrepreneur as well as composer of classic Hawaiian hapa haole songs such as Hula Blues, Hapa Haole Hula Girl, Honolulu Tomboy and even the Yale University fight s…
Insults, Egos and Agendas: Notes on a Debate About Music Research on the Internet
Neuenfeldt reflects on the use of the Internet as a research source and tool
The Essentialistic, the Exotic, the Equivocal and the Absurd: The Cultural Production and Use of the Didjeridu in World Music
This article analyses the cultural production and use of the didjeridu in contemporary popular music, especially 'world music'2• The analysis is informed by two interwoven perspectives. Firstly, Feld's identification of what he terms "schizophonia to schismogenesis", that is, "how sounds are split from their sources, and how that splitting is dynamically connected to escalating cycles of distorted mutuality between local and global practices" ( 1…
The Didjeridu and the Overdub: Technologising and Transposing Aural Images of Aboriginality
This article investigates how aural 'images' of aboriginality are technologised and transposed across cultures, with special regard to the didjeridu. In doing this, the study involves consideration of both the traditional background of the didjeridu and its use and the central role of technology in contemporary music. This in turn involves study of producers and performers of didjeridu music working in non-traditional Aboriginal music and their r…
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of musical experiences in the breadth of musical practice that flows though Australia, including Indigenous song, art music, children's music, jazz, country, p…
‘Dark complexion preferred’: Life on the road with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Australia (1894–1895) as recounted in the diary of Lucy Pizey
The unpublished diary of Lucy Pizey recounts her experiences in 1894–1895 whilst touring in Australia with the Fisk Jubilee Singers as their piano/organ accompanist. The troupe has influenced contemporary music in Australia based on their popularization of songs still being performed in genres such as spirituals and gospel. The diary provides glimpses of what ‘life on the road’ was like for a twenty-four year old, unmarried and unchaperoned Anglo…
Dark complexion preferred’: Life on the road with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Australia (1894–1895) as recounted in the diary of Lucy Pizey
The unpublished diary of Lucy Pizey recounts her experiences in 1894–1895 whilst touring in Australia with the Fisk Jubilee Singers as their piano/organ accompanist. The troupe has influenced contemporary music in Australia based on their popularization of songs still being performed in genres such as spirituals and gospel. The diary provides glimpses of what ‘life on the road’ was like for a twenty-four year old, unmarried and unchaperoned Anglo…
The serendipity of happenstance: Interviews with David Bridie on producing Australian Indigenous music
This article is based on interviews with David Bridie. Bridie is an Australasian musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film and television composer. He has initiated numerous projects in Australasia including in Australia, specifically with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities. His non-profit organization Wantok Musik Foundation has also done numerous recording projects in the Torres Strait region, Australia, Papua N…
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