“Dancing with the stars”: astronomy and music in the Torres Strait

Duane Willis Hamacher; Alo Tapim; Segar Passi; John Barca

“Dancing with the stars”: astronomy and music in the Torres Strait

Duane Willis Hamacher, Alo Tapim, Segar Passi, John Barca

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre

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Abstract

Song and dance are a traditional means of strengthening culture and passing knowledge to successive generations in the Torres Strait of northeastern Australia. Dances incorporate a range of apparatuses to enhance the performance, such as dance machines (Zamiyakal) and headdresses (Dhari). The dances, songs, headdresses and dance machines work together to transfer important knowledge about subsistence survival, social structure, and cultural continuity. This paper explores how celestial phenomena inspire and inform music and dance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dreams of Other Worlds
Subtitle of host publication	Papers from the Ninth Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
Editors	Nicholas Campion, Chris Impey
Place of Publication	Lampeter, UK
Publisher	Sophia Centre Press
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - 9 Nov 2017
Event	International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena - Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Conference	International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
Period	1/01/11 → …

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Hamacher, DW, Tapim, A, Passi, S & Barca, J 2017, “Dancing with the stars”: astronomy and music in the Torres Strait. in N Campion & C Impey (eds), Dreams of Other Worlds: Papers from the Ninth Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena. Sophia Centre Press, Lampeter, UK, pp. 1-12, International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, 1/01/11.

“Dancing with the stars”: astronomy and music in the Torres Strait. / Hamacher, Duane Willis; Tapim, Alo; Passi, Segar et al.
Dreams of Other Worlds: Papers from the Ninth Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena. ed. / Nicholas Campion; Chris Impey. Lampeter, UK: Sophia Centre Press, 2017. p. 1-12.

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