Aaron Corn
Biographic Data
| ID | 140603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Corn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Corn |
| SIGNATURE | CORN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4797-9776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The connections between Indigenous Australians and Indonesians beyond the trepang trade
The long-standing connections between Indigenous Australians in northern Australia and Makassan Indonesians endure in culture and language
Engaging with Indigenous knowledges in Asia: Sharing new opportunities for exchange
The power imbalance between the academic Anglosphere and the world’s Indigenous peoples need not continue unchecked
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…
How Yolŋu Songs Recount Deep Histories of International Trade across the Arafura Sea
This chapter discusses how historical exchanges with Makassan and other seafaring peoples from beyond the Arafura Sea remain a profound influence on Yolŋu music and culture that endures to this day. We explore how Yolŋu people, through their enduring ceremonial traditions, elaborately integrate song, dance and design elements to recount exchanges with Makassan seafarers, the boats in which they sailed, and the goods they carried. We also discuss …
Reflections on sustaining Trade and Kinship Traditions between Makassans and Yolŋu
The Aboriginal Artists Agency and the Prominence of Indigenous Music and Dance in the Growth of the Australian Arts Industry
This article focuses on the formative role of the Aboriginal Artists Agency in building today’s global market for Australian Indigenous artists. From 1976 to 1986, the Agency worked with Australian Indigenous musicians and dancers to undertake many innovative recording and touring projects. This study addresses the Agency’s early innovations in encouraging and supporting the recording and touring aspirations of Australian Indigenous performers ac…
A Post-mortem of a Pulped Book: Making Sense of the Missed Opportunities of Deadly Woman Blues
When new books are reviewed, they are normally in circulation and available for purchase. This is not true, however, of Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music by Clinton Walker, which w
The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher
Reviewed by: The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher Aaron Corn Daniel Fisher, The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 344 pp. In The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia, Daniel Fisher of the University of California, Berkeley, offers an insightful and well-theorized analysis of the challenging domain of Aboriginal rad…
Nations of Song
Eye-witness testimony is the lowest form of evidence
Sustaining Australia's Indigenous Music and Dance Traditions: The Role of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia
This article examines the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia as a dedicated network of Indigenous performers, and allied scholars and curators, to protect and sustain Australia's highly endangered traditions of Indigenous music, dance and ceremonies. The paper examines how the National Recording Project has developed into a community of practice for the making and archiving of Indigenous Australian music and dance …
Land, song, constitution: Exploring expressions of ancestral agency, intercultural diplomacy and family legacy in the music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupiŋu
Yothu Yindi stands as one of Australia's most celebrated popular bands, and in the early 1990s became renowned worldwide for its innovative blend of rock and indigenous performance traditions. The band's lead singer and composer, Mandawuy Yunupiŋu, was one of the first university-trained Yolŋu educators from remote Arnhem Land, and an influential exponent of bicultural education within local indigenous schools. This article draws on my comprehens…
Matjabala Mali’ Buku-Ruŋanmaram: Implications for archives and access in Arnhem Land
When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post ‐Barunga intercultural discourses
(2005). When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post‐Barunga intercultural discourses. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 28, Backburning, pp. 23-34
Outside the Hollow Log: The Didjeridu, Globalisation and Socio-Economic Contestation in Arnhem Land
Enthusiasm for the didjeridu is a global phenomenon that attracts interest from players and collectors worldwide despite the many popular fallacies that circulate about this instrument and the indigenous peoples of North Australia from whose cultures it originates. In this article, I address emerging initiatives among the Yolŋu (People) of North-East Arnhem Land that respond to the rapid globalisation and commercialisation of the didjeridu in rec…
Burr-Gi Wargugu ngu-Ninya Rrawa: Expressions of ancestry and country In songs by the Letterstisand
This article documents the musical creativity of the Letterstick Band from Maningrida on Arnhem Land's north-central coast and in particular focuses on the musical and socio-contextual analysis of two prominent songs in their repertoire: ‘Bartpa’ and ‘An-Barra Clan’. Although as musicians the band's members have availed themselves of new media and technologies that have been introduced to Arnhem Land since the mid 1960s, through such analyses it …
Sustaining Australia's Indigenous Music and Dance Traditions: The Role of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia
This article examines the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia as a dedicated network of Indigenous performers, and allied scholars and curators, to protect and sustain Australia's highly endangered traditions of Indigenous music, dance and ceremonies. The paper examines how the National Recording Project has developed into a community of practice for the making and archiving of Indigenous Australian music and dance …
Land, song, constitution: Exploring expressions of ancestral agency, intercultural diplomacy and family legacy in the music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupiŋu
Yothu Yindi stands as one of Australia's most celebrated popular bands, and in the early 1990s became renowned worldwide for its innovative blend of rock and indigenous performance traditions. The band's lead singer and composer, Mandawuy Yunupiŋu, was one of the first university-trained Yolŋu educators from remote Arnhem Land, and an influential exponent of bicultural education within local indigenous schools. This article draws on my comprehens…
Outside the Hollow Log: The Didjeridu, Globalisation and Socio-Economic Contestation in Arnhem Land
Enthusiasm for the didjeridu is a global phenomenon that attracts interest from players and collectors worldwide despite the many popular fallacies that circulate about this instrument and the indigenous peoples of North Australia from whose cultures it originates. In this article, I address emerging initiatives among the Yolŋu (People) of North-East Arnhem Land that respond to the rapid globalisation and commercialisation of the didjeridu in rec…
When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post ‐Barunga intercultural discourses
(2005). When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post‐Barunga intercultural discourses. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 28, Backburning, pp. 23-34
Burr-Gi Wargugu ngu-Ninya Rrawa: Expressions of ancestry and country In songs by the Letterstisand
This article documents the musical creativity of the Letterstick Band from Maningrida on Arnhem Land's north-central coast and in particular focuses on the musical and socio-contextual analysis of two prominent songs in their repertoire: ‘Bartpa’ and ‘An-Barra Clan’. Although as musicians the band's members have availed themselves of new media and technologies that have been introduced to Arnhem Land since the mid 1960s, through such analyses it …
The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher
Reviewed by: The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher Aaron Corn Daniel Fisher, The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 344 pp. In The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia, Daniel Fisher of the University of California, Berkeley, offers an insightful and well-theorized analysis of the challenging domain of Aboriginal rad…
Burr-Gi Wargugu ngu-Ninya Rrawa: Expressions of ancestry and country In songs by the Letterstisand
This article documents the musical creativity of the Letterstick Band from Maningrida on Arnhem Land's north-central coast and in particular focuses on the musical and socio-contextual analysis of two prominent songs in their repertoire: ‘Bartpa’ and ‘An-Barra Clan’. Although as musicians the band's members have availed themselves of new media and technologies that have been introduced to Arnhem Land since the mid 1960s, through such analyses it …
Outside the Hollow Log: The Didjeridu, Globalisation and Socio-Economic Contestation in Arnhem Land
Enthusiasm for the didjeridu is a global phenomenon that attracts interest from players and collectors worldwide despite the many popular fallacies that circulate about this instrument and the indigenous peoples of North Australia from whose cultures it originates. In this article, I address emerging initiatives among the Yolŋu (People) of North-East Arnhem Land that respond to the rapid globalisation and commercialisation of the didjeridu in rec…
When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post ‐Barunga intercultural discourses
(2005). When the waters will be one: Hereditary performance traditions and the Yolηu re‐invention of post‐Barunga intercultural discourses. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 28, Backburning, pp. 23-34
Matjabala Mali’ Buku-Ruŋanmaram: Implications for archives and access in Arnhem Land
Land, song, constitution: Exploring expressions of ancestral agency, intercultural diplomacy and family legacy in the music of Yothu Yindi with Mandawuy Yunupiŋu
Yothu Yindi stands as one of Australia's most celebrated popular bands, and in the early 1990s became renowned worldwide for its innovative blend of rock and indigenous performance traditions. The band's lead singer and composer, Mandawuy Yunupiŋu, was one of the first university-trained Yolŋu educators from remote Arnhem Land, and an influential exponent of bicultural education within local indigenous schools. This article draws on my comprehens…
Nations of Song
Eye-witness testimony is the lowest form of evidence
Sustaining Australia's Indigenous Music and Dance Traditions: The Role of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia
This article examines the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia as a dedicated network of Indigenous performers, and allied scholars and curators, to protect and sustain Australia's highly endangered traditions of Indigenous music, dance and ceremonies. The paper examines how the National Recording Project has developed into a community of practice for the making and archiving of Indigenous Australian music and dance …
The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher
Reviewed by: The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher Aaron Corn Daniel Fisher, The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 344 pp. In The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia, Daniel Fisher of the University of California, Berkeley, offers an insightful and well-theorized analysis of the challenging domain of Aboriginal rad…
A Post-mortem of a Pulped Book: Making Sense of the Missed Opportunities of Deadly Woman Blues
When new books are reviewed, they are normally in circulation and available for purchase. This is not true, however, of Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music by Clinton Walker, which w
The Aboriginal Artists Agency and the Prominence of Indigenous Music and Dance in the Growth of the Australian Arts Industry
This article focuses on the formative role of the Aboriginal Artists Agency in building today’s global market for Australian Indigenous artists. From 1976 to 1986, the Agency worked with Australian Indigenous musicians and dancers to undertake many innovative recording and touring projects. This study addresses the Agency’s early innovations in encouraging and supporting the recording and touring aspirations of Australian Indigenous performers ac…
Reflections on sustaining Trade and Kinship Traditions between Makassans and Yolŋu
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…
How Yolŋu Songs Recount Deep Histories of International Trade across the Arafura Sea
This chapter discusses how historical exchanges with Makassan and other seafaring peoples from beyond the Arafura Sea remain a profound influence on Yolŋu music and culture that endures to this day. We explore how Yolŋu people, through their enduring ceremonial traditions, elaborately integrate song, dance and design elements to recount exchanges with Makassan seafarers, the boats in which they sailed, and the goods they carried. We also discuss …
The connections between Indigenous Australians and Indonesians beyond the trepang trade
The long-standing connections between Indigenous Australians in northern Australia and Makassan Indonesians endure in culture and language
Engaging with Indigenous knowledges in Asia: Sharing new opportunities for exchange
The power imbalance between the academic Anglosphere and the world’s Indigenous peoples need not continue unchecked
Sociology (11 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works)