Clint Bracknell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1457727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clint Bracknell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clint |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracknell |
| SIGNATURE | BRACKNELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9808-1624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rehabilitation on a Friendly Frontier: John McKail, Settler-Colonial Violence, and the Making of Respectability in Early Western Australia (1829–71)
Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory from frontier violence in Perth to respectabi…
Noongar ecomusicology in southwest Australia
The vitality of eco-centric Noongar language and song traditions Indigenous to Western Australia’s urban-rural southwest region has been continually compromised by environmental and social upheaval since the onset of settler-colonisation in the nineteenth century. The Noongar region is today recognised as an area of globally significant biodiversity under significant threat, and a global drying hotspot. This article considers how revitalising and…
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…
The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Music Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational First Nations Musical Practices as Cultural Determinants of Health
This article reports on promising pilot research which indicates that intergenerational musical practices in diverse First Nations families and communities in Vanuatu and Australia can shape cultural determinants of health (CDoH). We contend that such strength- and culture-based approaches to health promotion may help to disrupt colonial and deficit constructions of First Nations People and our health and wellbeing. The pilot study used Indigenis…
First Nations music as a determinant of health in Australia and Vanuatu: Political and economic determinants
This article reports on findings that indicate how First Nations musical activities function as cultural determinants of health. Drawing on early findings from a 3-year Australian Research Council funded project titled The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health, we detail Australian and Ni Vanuatu First Nations musicians’ reported outcomes of musical activity using a First Nations cultural determinants of health framework.…
Keep the Music Going’: How the Isolation Tour 2020 Maintained Community and Cultural Connectedness during the 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown in Western Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social isolation measures had a profound impact on communities worldwide. In regional and remote Western Australia, the use of online platforms has become increasingly important for maintaining social and emotional well-being. This article examines the role of 'The Isolation Tour 2020' Facebook page in providing a lifeline for its mostly Aboriginal audience to stay connected with culture, Country, and one anot…
Wanji-wanji: The Past and Future of an Aboriginal Travelling Song
Classical Aboriginal culture in Australia consists of many different kinds of ceremonies, including travelling ceremonies that are often shared across linguistic and geographical boundaries. Each of these ceremonies is made up of dozens of different verses. Perhaps the most widely known travelling ceremony is one referred to in some areas as ‘Wanji-wanji’. This was known over half the country and dates back at least 170 years, as evidenced in ele…
The Emotional Business of Noongar Song
This article explores connections between history, emotion and Aboriginal song in the south of Western Australia. Songs performed in the Noongar language in the 19th and early 20th centuries provide insight into the emotional worlds of Western Australia’s past. Historical documentation reveals how Noongar sang to deal with rapid changes associated with colonisation, with song acting as a conduit for cultural resilience. Today, the Noongar languag…
Rebuilding as Research: Noongar Song, Language and Ways of Knowing
In Australia, language and song are integral to maintaining Aboriginal knowledge systems. British colonisation and ensuing Australian government policies of assimilation have adversely impacted these knowledge systems, at least partially by functioning to dramatically diminish the vitality of many Aboriginal languages and song traditions. As a Noongar researcher motivated by community-oriented goals, I employ a multidisciplinary approach to enhan…
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
Connecting Indigenous Song Archives to Kin, Country and Language
In Australia and elsewhere, the repatriation of archival material has emerged as a common practice amongst music researchers working with Indigenous communities. The return of archival audio recordings and documentation to their communities of origin can assist local efforts to sustain endangered song traditions. Increased community access to old recordings of song performances may prompt recollections, trigger new performances and provide impetu…
Conceptualizing Noongar Song
As of 2011, an estimated 669,900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accounted for 3 per cent of Australia's total population (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015). Of that population, over 30,000 people from a uniquely large urban/rural area in the southwest of Western Australia-including the author of this article-identify as Noongar (also spelled Nyungar). This makes Noongar one of the largest Aboriginal cultural groups in Australia …
Kooral Dwonk-katitjiny (listening to the past): Aboriginal language, songs and history in south-western Australia
Noongar, the Aboriginal peoples of south-west Australia, have observed and interacted with Europeans since before the dawn of the nineteenth century. 1 Historians have long relied on expedition journals and the diaries of colonists for constructing interpretations of south-west
Say You’re a Nyungarmusicologist: Indigenous Research and Endangered Song
Based on my work as an Aboriginal Australian researcher studying song traditions in the Southwest of Western Australia, this article interrogates notions of 'native' music researchers and distinctly Indigenous approaches to research. An Indigenous scholar's identity, acceptance, and the advantages or constraints they experience are subject to constant negotiation as they attempt to balance responsibilities to the academic and Indigenous communiti…
The Wirlomin Project: Sustaining Aboriginal Language and Song
Connecting Indigenous Song Archives to Kin, Country and Language
In Australia and elsewhere, the repatriation of archival material has emerged as a common practice amongst music researchers working with Indigenous communities. The return of archival audio recordings and documentation to their communities of origin can assist local efforts to sustain endangered song traditions. Increased community access to old recordings of song performances may prompt recollections, trigger new performances and provide impetu…
Kooral Dwonk-katitjiny (listening to the past): Aboriginal language, songs and history in south-western Australia
Noongar, the Aboriginal peoples of south-west Australia, have observed and interacted with Europeans since before the dawn of the nineteenth century. 1 Historians have long relied on expedition journals and the diaries of colonists for constructing interpretations of south-west
The Emotional Business of Noongar Song
This article explores connections between history, emotion and Aboriginal song in the south of Western Australia. Songs performed in the Noongar language in the 19th and early 20th centuries provide insight into the emotional worlds of Western Australia’s past. Historical documentation reveals how Noongar sang to deal with rapid changes associated with colonisation, with song acting as a conduit for cultural resilience. Today, the Noongar languag…
Rebuilding as Research: Noongar Song, Language and Ways of Knowing
In Australia, language and song are integral to maintaining Aboriginal knowledge systems. British colonisation and ensuing Australian government policies of assimilation have adversely impacted these knowledge systems, at least partially by functioning to dramatically diminish the vitality of many Aboriginal languages and song traditions. As a Noongar researcher motivated by community-oriented goals, I employ a multidisciplinary approach to enhan…
Say You’re a Nyungarmusicologist: Indigenous Research and Endangered Song
Based on my work as an Aboriginal Australian researcher studying song traditions in the Southwest of Western Australia, this article interrogates notions of 'native' music researchers and distinctly Indigenous approaches to research. An Indigenous scholar's identity, acceptance, and the advantages or constraints they experience are subject to constant negotiation as they attempt to balance responsibilities to the academic and Indigenous communiti…
The Wirlomin Project: Sustaining Aboriginal Language and Song
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
Conceptualizing Noongar Song
As of 2011, an estimated 669,900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accounted for 3 per cent of Australia's total population (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015). Of that population, over 30,000 people from a uniquely large urban/rural area in the southwest of Western Australia-including the author of this article-identify as Noongar (also spelled Nyungar). This makes Noongar one of the largest Aboriginal cultural groups in Australia …
The Wirlomin Project: Sustaining Aboriginal Language and Song
Kooral Dwonk-katitjiny (listening to the past): Aboriginal language, songs and history in south-western Australia
Noongar, the Aboriginal peoples of south-west Australia, have observed and interacted with Europeans since before the dawn of the nineteenth century. 1 Historians have long relied on expedition journals and the diaries of colonists for constructing interpretations of south-west
Say You’re a Nyungarmusicologist: Indigenous Research and Endangered Song
Based on my work as an Aboriginal Australian researcher studying song traditions in the Southwest of Western Australia, this article interrogates notions of 'native' music researchers and distinctly Indigenous approaches to research. An Indigenous scholar's identity, acceptance, and the advantages or constraints they experience are subject to constant negotiation as they attempt to balance responsibilities to the academic and Indigenous communiti…
Conceptualizing Noongar Song
As of 2011, an estimated 669,900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accounted for 3 per cent of Australia's total population (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015). Of that population, over 30,000 people from a uniquely large urban/rural area in the southwest of Western Australia-including the author of this article-identify as Noongar (also spelled Nyungar). This makes Noongar one of the largest Aboriginal cultural groups in Australia …
Connecting Indigenous Song Archives to Kin, Country and Language
In Australia and elsewhere, the repatriation of archival material has emerged as a common practice amongst music researchers working with Indigenous communities. The return of archival audio recordings and documentation to their communities of origin can assist local efforts to sustain endangered song traditions. Increased community access to old recordings of song performances may prompt recollections, trigger new performances and provide impetu…
Wanji-wanji: The Past and Future of an Aboriginal Travelling Song
Classical Aboriginal culture in Australia consists of many different kinds of ceremonies, including travelling ceremonies that are often shared across linguistic and geographical boundaries. Each of these ceremonies is made up of dozens of different verses. Perhaps the most widely known travelling ceremony is one referred to in some areas as ‘Wanji-wanji’. This was known over half the country and dates back at least 170 years, as evidenced in ele…
The Emotional Business of Noongar Song
This article explores connections between history, emotion and Aboriginal song in the south of Western Australia. Songs performed in the Noongar language in the 19th and early 20th centuries provide insight into the emotional worlds of Western Australia’s past. Historical documentation reveals how Noongar sang to deal with rapid changes associated with colonisation, with song acting as a conduit for cultural resilience. Today, the Noongar languag…
Rebuilding as Research: Noongar Song, Language and Ways of Knowing
In Australia, language and song are integral to maintaining Aboriginal knowledge systems. British colonisation and ensuing Australian government policies of assimilation have adversely impacted these knowledge systems, at least partially by functioning to dramatically diminish the vitality of many Aboriginal languages and song traditions. As a Noongar researcher motivated by community-oriented goals, I employ a multidisciplinary approach to enhan…
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
First Nations music as a determinant of health in Australia and Vanuatu: Political and economic determinants
This article reports on findings that indicate how First Nations musical activities function as cultural determinants of health. Drawing on early findings from a 3-year Australian Research Council funded project titled The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health, we detail Australian and Ni Vanuatu First Nations musicians’ reported outcomes of musical activity using a First Nations cultural determinants of health framework.…
Keep the Music Going’: How the Isolation Tour 2020 Maintained Community and Cultural Connectedness during the 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown in Western Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social isolation measures had a profound impact on communities worldwide. In regional and remote Western Australia, the use of online platforms has become increasingly important for maintaining social and emotional well-being. This article examines the role of 'The Isolation Tour 2020' Facebook page in providing a lifeline for its mostly Aboriginal audience to stay connected with culture, Country, and one anot…
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…
The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Music Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational First Nations Musical Practices as Cultural Determinants of Health
This article reports on promising pilot research which indicates that intergenerational musical practices in diverse First Nations families and communities in Vanuatu and Australia can shape cultural determinants of health (CDoH). We contend that such strength- and culture-based approaches to health promotion may help to disrupt colonial and deficit constructions of First Nations People and our health and wellbeing. The pilot study used Indigenis…
Noongar ecomusicology in southwest Australia
The vitality of eco-centric Noongar language and song traditions Indigenous to Western Australia’s urban-rural southwest region has been continually compromised by environmental and social upheaval since the onset of settler-colonisation in the nineteenth century. The Noongar region is today recognised as an area of globally significant biodiversity under significant threat, and a global drying hotspot. This article considers how revitalising and…
Rehabilitation on a Friendly Frontier: John McKail, Settler-Colonial Violence, and the Making of Respectability in Early Western Australia (1829–71)
Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory from frontier violence in Perth to respectabi…
Diverse Musicological Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (8 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Ecology (4 works)