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Publications and Conference Papers

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  

(2018) Yolngu Music, Indigenous Knowledge Centres, and the Emergence of Archives as Contact Zones. In Frank Gunderson, Rob Lancefield, and Bret Woods (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

(2017)   Form and Performance: The Relations of Melody, Poetics, and Rhythm in Dhalwangu Manikay. In Kirsty Gillespie, Don Niles, and Sally Treloyn (eds), A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. P.G. Toner (ed.). Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Introduction: Strings of Connectedness in Ian Keen’s Scholarship. In P.G. Toner (ed.), Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015)  Bakhtin’s Theory of the Utterance and Dhalwangu Manikay. In P.G. Toner (ed.), Strings of Connectedness: Essays in Honour of Ian Keen. Canberra: ANU Press.

 

(2015) Public Property and the Public Trust in New Brunswick. In Tony Tremblay and James Kerr (eds.), Journal of New Brunswick Studies Reader. Fredericton: Centre for Digital Scholarship, UNB.

 

(2014) Public Property and the Public Trust in New Brunswick. Journal of New Brunswick Studies 5 (2014): 9-14.

 

(2009) co-edited with Michael Boudreau and Tony Tremblay. Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick. Fredericton: New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre.

 

(2008) Nine Sites for the Study of Irish-New Brunswick Folk Music: Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. In Post-Colonial Distances: The Study of Popular Music in Canada and Australia. (eds.) Beverley Diamond, Denis Crowdy, and Daniel Downes Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

(2007) The Gestation of Cross-Cultural Music Research and the Birth of Ethnomusicology. Humanities Research 14(1): 85-110.

 

(2007) Sing a Country of the Mind: The Articulation of Place in Dhalwangu Song. In The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality. (ed.) Fiona Richards. Aldershot: Ashgate.

 

(2005) Tropes of Longing and Belonging: Nostalgia and Musical Instruments in Northeast Arnhem Land. Yearbook for Traditional Music 37: 1-24.

 

(2005) Home Among the Gum Trees: An Ethnography of Yolngu Musical Performance in Mainstream Contexts. In Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land. (eds.) Fiona Magowan and Karl Neuenfeldt. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

 

(2004) co-edited with Karl Neuenfeldt and Stephen A. Wild. “World Music: Politics, Production, and Pedagogy”, special thematic issue of The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(2).

 

(2004) (with Stephen A. Wild) Introduction - World Music: Politics, Production, and Pedagogy. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(2): 95-112.

 

(2003) History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities, or, Memory as Metadata. In Researchers, Communities, Institutions, Sound Recordings. (eds.) Linda Barwick, Jane Simpson and Amanda Harris. Sydney: University of Sydney. (http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1518/1/Toner%20rev1.pdf)

 

(2003) Melody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities. Yearbook for Traditional Music 35: 69-95.

 

(2000) Ideology, Influence and Innovation: The Impact of Macassan Contact on Yolngu Music. Perfect Beat – The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 5(1): 22-41.

 

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

(2018) Review of John Gibson, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective. Canadian Historical Review, in press.

 

(2017) Review of Anna Kearney Guigné, The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports: As Taken from Kenneth Peacock’s Newfoundland Field Collection, 1951-1961. Acadiensis Blog, https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/.

 

(2016) Review of Sherry Johnson, Beverley Diamond, and C.K. Szego (producers), Bellows & Bows: Historic Recordings of Traditional Fiddle & Accordion Music from Across Canada. Yearbook for Traditional Music 48: 220-221.

 

(2011) Gorman, Lawrence. In New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. (ed.) Tony Tremblay. Fredericton: St. Thomas University. (http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/g/gorman_lawrence.html)

 

(2011) Scott, Joseph. In New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. (ed.) Tony Tremblay. Fredericton: St. Thomas University. (http:// w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/s/scott_joseph.html)

 

(2009)  Review of Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation by David W. Samuels.

 

Journal of American Folklore 122 (484): 229-30.

 

(2008) Review of Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr. The World of Music 50(3). (2008) Cultural Property. Entry in “Keywords” section of the website Critical World: Thinking Globalisation Through Music

(http://www.criticalworld.net/tool.php?type=9&id=138).

 

(2008) Review of Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology by Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako (eds.). Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 44(2): 193-4.

 

(2007) Review of Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia by Allan Marett. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18(3): 361-2.

 

(2004) Music is Good to Listen To and Good to Think (Review of Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (CD anthology), recorded and annotated by Steven Feld). The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(1): 71-7. [review article]

 

(2002) Review of People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana by Les Hiatt, Kim McKenzie, Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan, and Rhys Jones. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002 (number 2): 91-3.

 

Seminars and Conference Papers

 

“Legacies of ‘The Old People’: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in Yolngu Ritual Music,” 44th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Limerick, Ireland. (07/2017)

 

“Sound, Evocation, and Presence in Yolngu Manikay,” 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Washington, DC, USA (11/2016)

 

“The Transmogrification of ‘Tradition’: Hybridity, Meaning-Making, and Intangible Cultural Heritage,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (05/2016)

 

“Affect, Memory, and Meaning in Archival Recordings of Yolngu Manikay,” 2nd Conference of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Canberra, Australia. (12/2014)

 

“Ethnic Identities, Traditional Musics, and the Expediency of Culture,” Acadian Traditional Music: At the Crossroads of French and Celtic Cultures conference, Sydney, N.S., Canada (10/2013)

 

“Is There a New Brunswick Fiddle Style? Does It Matter? On the Search for a Provincial Musical Identity,” 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Saint John, N.B., Canada (05/2012)

 

“Hybridity, Revivalism, and the Second Life of Irish Music in New Brunswick,” 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, St. John’s, NFLD, Canada (07/2011)

 

“Locating ‘Celtic’ Music in Early 21st-Century New Brunswick; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the ‘Pure Drop’ and Love the Music,” Celts in the Americas conference, Antigonish, NS, Canada (06/2011)

 

“Archives as Contact Zones: Competing Epistemologies in Australian ‘Indigenous Knowledge Centres’,” Canadian Anthropological Society conference, Fredericton, NB, Canada (05/2011)

 

“Images of Identity and Memory in Dhalwangu Song,” Imaging Identity conference, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (07/2010)

 

“Invented Traditions, Revivalism, and Cultural Production at the Miramichi Folksong Festival,” 18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada (05/2009)

 

“Software Tools for Socio-Musical Analysis,” NBASRDC Symposium, Fredericton, N.B., Canada (04/2009)

 

“A Tale of Two Festivals: The Construction of Cultural Identity on the Miramichi,” 52nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Halifax, NS, Canada (11/2008)

 

“‘Authentic’ Identities and Hybrid Musics among the Irish in New Brunswick,” 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Middletown, CT, USA (10/2008)

 

“‘Authentic’ Identities and Hybrid Musics among the Irish in New Brunswick,” Seventeenth Biennial Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland (06/2008)

 

"New Media, Memory, and Yolngu (Auto)Biographical Discourses,” Indigenous Biography and Autobiography conference, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia (07/2007)  

 

“Management as Discourse, Memory as Discourse: Issues in the Repatriation of Intangible Cultural Heritage,” joint conference of the Canadian Anthropological Society and the American Ethnological Society, Toronto, ON (05/2007) 

 

“Old Recordings, New Technologies, and the Study of the Musical Past,” 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, USA (11/2005)

 

“Who is Still Living at Duffy’s Hotel?: New Brunswick Folk Music and the Articulation of Irish Identity,” Post-Colonial Distances: The Study of Popular Music in Canada and Australia, St. John’s, NFLD (06/2005)

 

“Improvisation and Compositional Creativity in Yolngu Song Texts,” Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia (07/2004)

 

“The Gestation of Cross-Cultural Music Research and the Birth of Ethnomusicology,” Centre for Cross- Cultural Research Six-Pack Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (06/2004)           

 

“History, Memory and Music: The Repatriation of Digital Audio to Yolngu Communities or Memory as Metadata,” Digital Audio Archiving Workshop, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (09/2003)

 

“A Bakhtinian Approach to Yolngu Sociality,” Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Winter Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (08/2003)

 

“Can I Get a Copy of This?: Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Digital Repatriation,” Music Research Forum, Garma Festival, Gulkula, NT, Australia (08/2003) 

 

“Musicality, Polytropy, and Dhalwangu Song: A Case Study of an Epic Song Tradition of Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia,” Chanted Tales Research Group Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (05/2003)

 

“Archives and Libraries: A User’s Perspective of AIATSIS,” Research Seminar Series, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia (05/2003)

 

“Melody and the Musical Articulation of Yolngu Identities,” Anthropology Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (03/2003)

 

“Western Musicology and Non-Western Music: Challenges in Translation,” Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Six-Pack Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (08/2002)

 

“My Year of Reading Yolngu Music,” Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Colloquium, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (10/2001)           

 

“Polytropy and Dhalwangu Song: An Initial Formulation,” Department of Anthropology Staff Seminar Series, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (10/2000)

 

“Five Ways to Sing About Water, Six Ways to Sing About the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo: Different Versions of Dhalwangu Songs,” Musicological Society of Australia Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (04/2000)

 

“‘Where Do We Sing Today?’: The Articulation of Place in Yolngu Song,” Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (10/1998)  

 

“Home Among the Gum Trees: An Ethnography of Yolngu Musical Performance in Mainstream Contexts,” 6th National Australian/New Zealand IASPM & Inaugural Arnhem Land Performance Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (06/1998)

 

“Ideology, Influence, and Innovation: The Impact of Indonesian Contact on Australian Aboriginal Music,” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, USA (10/1997)

 
“Ideology, Influence, and Innovation: The Impact of Indonesian Contact on Australian Aboriginal Music,” Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (post- fieldwork seminar) (09/1997)           

 

“Listen: Yolngu Music, and Yolngu Musical Anthropology,” Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (mid-fieldwork seminar) (09/1996)

 

“Toward a Yolngu Musical Anthropology,” Anthropology Graduate School Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (pre-fieldwork seminar) (07/1995)