Landscapes of Indigenous Performance CD and conflict over site destruction

and conflict over site destruction is regularly front page news

Peter Coppin

It encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with

courtesy Torress Strait Regional Authority & National Museum of Australia

Coupled with her vibrant and powerful paintings and poetry

Landscapes of Indigenous Performance CD and conflict over site destructionLandscapes of Indigenous Performance brings together a wide range of contemporary explorations of Indigenous music and dance in the Torres Strait and the tropical regions of the Northern Territory. This collection shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past and more recently to other external forces beyond local control. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity; at contemporary