Amanda Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9858-2568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cost of bereavement
The death of a household member can significantly affect surviving members' health and well-being. This study examines health care costs and service utilization among bereaved adults experiencing the death of a child household member and bereaved children experiencing the death of an adult household member using 2017-2019 national Medicaid and CHIP claims data. Bereaved individuals were propensity score-matched to non-bereaved counterparts using …
Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia
The Wild Australia Show
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
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…
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951
In 1951, performers from Daly River and Tiwi Islands Aboriginal communities staged a corroboree strike. The musicians and dancers had routinely entertained visiting cruise ships in the Darwin Botanic Gardens, but now joined dockside workers to protest the jailing and exiling of two Aboriginal agitators Lawrence Wurrpen (Urban) and Fred (Nadpur) Waters. In Melbourne, the Australian Aborigines' League expressed solidarity with the Darwin strikes an…
Bangarra performs a history of the Great Sandy Desert SandSong
Bark paintings as ambassadors, 1948–63, and the circle back to Aboriginal cultural agency
In post-Second World War Australia, the production and touring of assemblages of bark paintings became a diplomatic tool in embassies, galleries and museums around the world. At a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were rarely if ever travelling independently within Australia, these bark paintings acted as intermediaries and interlocutors for global audiences to see and read the stories and histories of Aboriginal Australia. I…
Songs as oral histories
Two recent song compilation projects draw our attention in powerful ways to how songs are an (often overlooked) vector for oral history. Released as static studio recordings, these songs are also v
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices of non-Indigenous art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works, placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and policy frameworks. Centralizing auditory wor…
Indigenising Australian music
Aboriginal-influenced compositions have been central to Australian art music practice since the 1960s, and key to conceptions of an Australian style. While in other creative arts practices (for example, dance and visual arts) appropriative practices have largely become unacceptable, or at least highly contested, compositions influenced by Aboriginal music have retained a central role in art music composition. In this article, I trace this practic…
Expeditionary Anthropology
The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyzes the often passionate arguments they provok…
Expeditionary Anthropology
Pan-Indigenous Encounter in the 1950s
From 1950, ‘ethnic dancer’ Beth Dean made her living on a lecture-demonstration touring circuit of the dance traditions of Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and North America. To assert her expertise, she claimed to have studied Māori and Australian Aboriginal cultures for a number of years. This article investigates how Dean’s didactic performances drew on American traditions of ethnic dance to present apparently authoritative representat…
Circulating Cultures
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer; and the indigenisation of symbolic meanings in heavy metal music. Circula…
Hearing Aboriginal Music Making in Non-Indigenous Accounts of the Bush from the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Spectacle of Woman as Creator
The period 1880–1930 saw women composers achieve unprecedented prominence as composers of large-scale works. This success coincided with the first wave of feminist movements in England, France and Germany. This article views the junctions where these two groups of women met through the vehicle of the feminist press, documenting the tensions and misunderstandings that occurred between emerging women composers attempting to be taken seriously as cr…
Circulating Cultures
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer
Food, Feeding and Consumption (or the Cook, the Wife and the Nutritionist)
The field diaries of John Bray, Bessie Mountford and Margaret McArthur are important first-person accounts of the social dynamics within the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. This article explores the ways in which representations of self and others in the diaries, particularly in relation to food, illuminate the gendered and class-based politics of the expedition's group from the perspectives of participants on the m…
Recomposing Her History
The published memoirs and unpublished diaries of English composer, writer and feminist Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) can be seen as sites for dissent from public portrayals of her life and career. Smyth's prolific autobiographical writing, appearing across nine published volumes (1919–1940) produced a narrative of rebellion against the male culture of musical life from which she was excluded as a female composer. Her diaries (1918–1941) show a developm…
The influence of context-specific and dispositional achievement goals on children's paired collaborative interaction
Background. Research has demonstrated that working collaboratively can have positive effects on children's learning. While key factors have been identified which influence the quality of these interactions, little research has addressed the influence of children's achievement goals on collaborative behaviour.Aims. This paper investigates the influence of mastery and performance goals on the nature of children's collaborative participation while p…
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
Beranak and bekindu’
An important dimension of socio-economic change in the lives of rural Iban women in Sarawak is their connection with the biomedically based state health-care system by virtue of their role as childbearers and mothers. The way these medical services are experienced, utilised and critiqued by women seems significantly determined by other dimensions of their lives relating to government approaches to the development of rural longhouse communities. T…
The nature of nordicism
Grainger's racial views and obsession with Nordic culture were an important part of his outlook on life and art. Both Grainger, and scholars commenting since his death, have made conclusions about the strong influence of these views on his music. However little attempt has been made to substantiate these claims. While such an influence is usually difficult if not impossible to quantify, Grainger has left a list of criteria with which to identify …
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices of non-Indigenous art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works, placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and policy frameworks. Centralizing auditory wor…
Food, Feeding and Consumption (or the Cook, the Wife and the Nutritionist)
The field diaries of John Bray, Bessie Mountford and Margaret McArthur are important first-person accounts of the social dynamics within the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. This article explores the ways in which representations of self and others in the diaries, particularly in relation to food, illuminate the gendered and class-based politics of the expedition's group from the perspectives of participants on the m…
Circulating Cultures
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer
The influence of context-specific and dispositional achievement goals on children's paired collaborative interaction
Background. Research has demonstrated that working collaboratively can have positive effects on children's learning. While key factors have been identified which influence the quality of these interactions, little research has addressed the influence of children's achievement goals on collaborative behaviour.Aims. This paper investigates the influence of mastery and performance goals on the nature of children's collaborative participation while p…
Bark paintings as ambassadors, 1948–63, and the circle back to Aboriginal cultural agency
In post-Second World War Australia, the production and touring of assemblages of bark paintings became a diplomatic tool in embassies, galleries and museums around the world. At a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were rarely if ever travelling independently within Australia, these bark paintings acted as intermediaries and interlocutors for global audiences to see and read the stories and histories of Aboriginal Australia. I…
Indigenising Australian music
Aboriginal-influenced compositions have been central to Australian art music practice since the 1960s, and key to conceptions of an Australian style. While in other creative arts practices (for example, dance and visual arts) appropriative practices have largely become unacceptable, or at least highly contested, compositions influenced by Aboriginal music have retained a central role in art music composition. In this article, I trace this practic…
The Spectacle of Woman as Creator
The period 1880–1930 saw women composers achieve unprecedented prominence as composers of large-scale works. This success coincided with the first wave of feminist movements in England, France and Germany. This article views the junctions where these two groups of women met through the vehicle of the feminist press, documenting the tensions and misunderstandings that occurred between emerging women composers attempting to be taken seriously as cr…
The nature of nordicism
Grainger's racial views and obsession with Nordic culture were an important part of his outlook on life and art. Both Grainger, and scholars commenting since his death, have made conclusions about the strong influence of these views on his music. However little attempt has been made to substantiate these claims. While such an influence is usually difficult if not impossible to quantify, Grainger has left a list of criteria with which to identify …
Beranak and bekindu’
An important dimension of socio-economic change in the lives of rural Iban women in Sarawak is their connection with the biomedically based state health-care system by virtue of their role as childbearers and mothers. The way these medical services are experienced, utilised and critiqued by women seems significantly determined by other dimensions of their lives relating to government approaches to the development of rural longhouse communities. T…
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
The influence of context-specific and dispositional achievement goals on children's paired collaborative interaction
Background. Research has demonstrated that working collaboratively can have positive effects on children's learning. While key factors have been identified which influence the quality of these interactions, little research has addressed the influence of children's achievement goals on collaborative behaviour.Aims. This paper investigates the influence of mastery and performance goals on the nature of children's collaborative participation while p…
Recomposing Her History
The published memoirs and unpublished diaries of English composer, writer and feminist Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) can be seen as sites for dissent from public portrayals of her life and career. Smyth's prolific autobiographical writing, appearing across nine published volumes (1919–1940) produced a narrative of rebellion against the male culture of musical life from which she was excluded as a female composer. Her diaries (1918–1941) show a developm…
Food, Feeding and Consumption (or the Cook, the Wife and the Nutritionist)
The field diaries of John Bray, Bessie Mountford and Margaret McArthur are important first-person accounts of the social dynamics within the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. This article explores the ways in which representations of self and others in the diaries, particularly in relation to food, illuminate the gendered and class-based politics of the expedition's group from the perspectives of participants on the m…
Circulating Cultures
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer; and the indigenisation of symbolic meanings in heavy metal music. Circula…
Hearing Aboriginal Music Making in Non-Indigenous Accounts of the Bush from the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Spectacle of Woman as Creator
The period 1880–1930 saw women composers achieve unprecedented prominence as composers of large-scale works. This success coincided with the first wave of feminist movements in England, France and Germany. This article views the junctions where these two groups of women met through the vehicle of the feminist press, documenting the tensions and misunderstandings that occurred between emerging women composers attempting to be taken seriously as cr…
Circulating Cultures
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian Aboriginal dance in the hands of an American choreographer
Pan-Indigenous Encounter in the 1950s
From 1950, ‘ethnic dancer’ Beth Dean made her living on a lecture-demonstration touring circuit of the dance traditions of Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and North America. To assert her expertise, she claimed to have studied Māori and Australian Aboriginal cultures for a number of years. This article investigates how Dean’s didactic performances drew on American traditions of ethnic dance to present apparently authoritative representat…
Expeditionary Anthropology
The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyzes the often passionate arguments they provok…
Expeditionary Anthropology
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices of non-Indigenous art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works, placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and policy frameworks. Centralizing auditory wor…
Indigenising Australian music
Aboriginal-influenced compositions have been central to Australian art music practice since the 1960s, and key to conceptions of an Australian style. While in other creative arts practices (for example, dance and visual arts) appropriative practices have largely become unacceptable, or at least highly contested, compositions influenced by Aboriginal music have retained a central role in art music composition. In this article, I trace this practic…
Songs as oral histories
Two recent song compilation projects draw our attention in powerful ways to how songs are an (often overlooked) vector for oral history. Released as static studio recordings, these songs are also v
Bangarra performs a history of the Great Sandy Desert SandSong
Bark paintings as ambassadors, 1948–63, and the circle back to Aboriginal cultural agency
In post-Second World War Australia, the production and touring of assemblages of bark paintings became a diplomatic tool in embassies, galleries and museums around the world. At a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were rarely if ever travelling independently within Australia, these bark paintings acted as intermediaries and interlocutors for global audiences to see and read the stories and histories of Aboriginal Australia. I…
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951
In 1951, performers from Daly River and Tiwi Islands Aboriginal communities staged a corroboree strike. The musicians and dancers had routinely entertained visiting cruise ships in the Darwin Botanic Gardens, but now joined dockside workers to protest the jailing and exiling of two Aboriginal agitators Lawrence Wurrpen (Urban) and Fred (Nadpur) Waters. In Melbourne, the Australian Aborigines' League expressed solidarity with the Darwin strikes an…
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
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…
Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia
The Wild Australia Show
Cost of bereavement
The death of a household member can significantly affect surviving members' health and well-being. This study examines health care costs and service utilization among bereaved adults experiencing the death of a child household member and bereaved children experiencing the death of an adult household member using 2017-2019 national Medicaid and CHIP claims data. Bereaved individuals were propensity score-matched to non-bereaved counterparts using …
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