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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes

Stephen as an infant in the 1940s

Source: Kim Woo

Whittaker Cameron and Stephen at Laverton, Western Australia, 1969–72

Source: AIATSIS: WILD.S05.CS - 000007525

Alan Merriam, Stephen, and Elizabeth May, May 1972

Source: William Malm, Society for Ethnomusicology

With Elizabeth May, 1977

Source: William Malm, Society for Ethnomusicology

Recording during a rom ceremony at Maningrida, Northern Territory, 1982

Source: AIATSIS: WILD.S01.CN - N02828_02

Stephen, Eric Wilmot, and John Mulvaney at a performance of a rom ceremony in 1982

Source: AIATSIS: AIAS.015.CS - 000081291

Stephen making a presentation to Anbarra people at a rom ceremony in Canberra, 1995

Source: AIATSIS: AIATSIS.036.CS - 115749

Stephen at the launch of Gedda Aklif’s Ardiyooloon Bardi Ngaanka: One Arm Point Bardi Dictionary (1999) at Acton House, Canberra, 18 March 2000

Source: AIATSIS: AIATSIS.063.CS - 126850

Participants in the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Oceania symposium in Canberra, 2001: Barbara Smith, Jane Freeman Moulin, Raymond Ammann, Don Niles, Helen Reeves Lawrence, Stephen, Steven Knopoff, Grace Koch, Peter Toner, and Dan Bendrups

Source: AIATSIS: AIATSIS.084.CS - 000129224

Stephen, John Mulvaney, and Patricia Stanner at the launch of the W. E. H. Stanner display and finding aid, Canberra, 2001

Source: AIATSIS: AIATSIS.093.CS - 000131857

At home with Kim Woo in Canberra, 2001

Source: Don Niles

ICTM Executive Board meeting in Wuyishan, China, June 2002: (back row) Krister Malm (President), Egil Bakka, Kelly Salloum (Executive Assistant), Stephen (Vice President), Allan Marett, Svanibor Pettan, Anthony Seeger (Secretary General); (front row) Tilman Seebass, Tsukada Kenichi, Patricia Opondo, and Marianne Bröcker

Source: Trần Quang Hải

Stephen chairing a session at the ICTM World Conference in Fuzhou, China, 2004, with Raymond Ammann, Jane Freeman Moulin, Michael Clement, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Brian Diettrich, and Mohd Anis Md Nor

Source: Don Niles

Kirsty Gillespie and Stephen study the programme at the ICTM World Conference in Sheffield, UK, 2005

Source: Kirsty Gillespie

Jonathan Stock, Ho Ching-fen, Hwang Chiung-Hui, Anthony McCann, Chou Chien’er, Claudia Krueger, Mohammad Reza Azadehfar, Andrew Killick, and Stephen in Sheffield, UK, 2005

Source: ICTM Online Photo Gallery

Launching of the ICTM Secretariat at The Australian National University, Canberra, 2006

Source: Lee Anne Proberts

With Jerry Jangala at Lajamanu School, 2008

Source: Yukihiro Doi

With Jerry Jangala in Lajamanu, 2009

Source: Yukihiro Doi

With Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu (Steven Patrick) at Charles Darwin University, during the 8th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance, 2009

Source: Julie Fairless

Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu (Steven Patrick), Jerry Jangala, and Stephen at Lajamanu Longhouse, 2011

Source: Yukihiro Doi

Discussing old crayon drawings with Warlpiri Elders at Warnayaka Art Centre, 2011

Source: Yukihiro Doi

Checking the time with Lee Anne Proberts before leaving Lajamanu, 2011

Source: Yukihiro Doi

Adrienne Kaeppler, Masaya Shishikura, Stephen, Aaron Corn, and Gisa Jähnichen, St John’s, Canada, 2011

Source: Don Niles

The transfer of the ICTM Secretariat: Lee Anne Proberts (Executive Assistant) and Stephen (Secretary General), from the outgoing Canberra Secretariat; Adrienne Kaeppler (President), Svanibor Pettan (Secretary General), and Carlos Yoder (Executive Assistant), from the incoming Ljubljana Secretariat, St John’s, Canada, 2011

Source: Don Niles

Stephen with ICTM President Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Shanghai, 2012

Source: Don Niles

Three ICTM Secretaries General in Brisbane, Australia, 2013: Svanibor Pettan, Stephen, and Anthony Seeger

Source: Svanibor Pettan

Stephen, Naila Ceribašić, Xiao Mei, Jean Kidula, J. Lawrence Witzleben, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Anthony Seeger, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Colin Quigley, and Svanibor Pettan in Shanghai, 2013

Source: Svanibor Pettan

ICTM Secretary General Svanibor Pettan, Vice President Stephen Wild, and Vice President Don Niles in Astana, Kazakhstan, discussing arrangements for the following year’s World Conference, 2014

Source: Trần Quang Hải

In a selfie with Trần Quang Hải, Astana, 2015

Source: Svanibor Pettan

At the ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, 2015

Source: Trần Quang Hải


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