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Sending a Message : How Indigenous Australian Women use Contemporary Music Recording Technologies to Provide a Space for Agency, Viewpoints and Agendas

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Diverse Musicological Studies Music History and Culture Music Technology and Sound Studies

Abstract

Home studios, local small-scale recording studios and the Internet provide an important space for many Indigenous Australian women performers to enact agency in deciding how their music will sound. They enjoy creative freedom and individual expression in producing recordings of their music. With reference to discourse on women and music technology, this article examines how recording practices provide the tools with which Indigenous Australian women performers raise awareness of political and social justice issues, which affect Indigenous Australians. Conclusions will be drawn regarding the ways recording technologies and the recording studio functions in this context as a space to create music that is sending a message of confidence, social power, control, and agency.

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