Publications by Stephen A. Wild

1963. ‘The Common Elements in Stravinsky’s Music.’ BA Honours thesis, University of Western Australia, Department of Music.

1966. ‘E. J. Moeran: An Assessment.’ MA thesis, University of Western Australia, Department of Music.

1966–67. Review of A Handlist of Field Collections of Recorded Music in Australia and Torres Strait, by Alice M. Moyle. Folklore and Folkmusic Archivist 9 (2): 53–54.

1967. with Elizabeth May. ‘Aboriginal Music on the Laverton Reservation, Western Australia.’ Ethnomusicology 11 (2): 207–17. doi.org/10.2307/849819.

1972. ‘The Role of the Katjiri (Gadjari) among the Walpiri in Transition.’ In Seminars 1971, 110–34. Clayton: Centre for Research in Aboriginal Affairs, Monash University.

1972. Review of Chopi Musicians, by Hugh Tracey. Bijdragen Tot de Taal, Land- En Volkenkunde 128: 198–200.

1973. E. J. Moeran. London: Triad Press.

1974. Review of Folk Song Style and Culture, by Alan Lomax. Bijdragen Tot de Taal, Land- En Volkenkunde 130: 167–77.

1975. ‘Walbiri Music and Dance in their Social and Cultural Nexus.’ PhD thesis, Indiana University, Department of Anthropology.

1977–78. ‘Men as Women: Female Dance Symbolism in Warlpiri Men’s Rituals.’ Dance Research Journal 10 (1): 14–22. doi.org/10.2307/1478492.

1978. with Nicolas Peterson, Patrick McConvell, and Rod Hagen. A Claim to Areas of Traditional Land by the Warlpiri and Kartangarurru-Kurinji. Alice Springs: Central Land Council.

1979. CA Comment on Judith Lynn Hanna, ‘Movements toward Understanding Humans through the Anthropological Study of Dance.’ Current Anthropology 20 (2): 300.

1979. Review of A Paradigm for Looking: Cross-cultural Research with Visual Media, by Beryl Larry Bellman and Bennetta Jules-Rosette. American Anthropologist 81 (1): 211–12. doi.org/10.1525/aa.1979.81.1.02a01230.

1979. Review of Studies in Indonesian Music, edited by Margaret Kartomi. ASAA Review 3 (1): 98–99.

1980. ‘Australian Aboriginal Performances, Past and Present.’ In Souvenir Programme Book: The Festival of Asian Arts, Hong Kong. Hong Kong.

1980. Review of Anthropologiska Studier, ethnomusicology issue, 25–26, edited by Bjorn Ranung and Carl Alex Peterson. Ethnomusicology 24 (3): 595–96. doi.org/10.2307/851174.

1981. ‘Aboriginal Music and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.’ The Australian Journal of Music Education 28: 33–38.

1981. Edited with Bryan Butler. Djambidj: An Aboriginal Song Series from Northern Australia. Cassette. AIAS 16. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

1981. with Margaret Clunies Ross. Djambidj: An Aboriginal Song Series from Northern Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

1982. ‘Alan P. Merriam: Professor.’ Ethnomusicology 26 (1): 91–98.

1984. ‘The Music of Indigenous Australians.’ In International Symposium on the Musical Cultures of the Indian Ocean Region, 17–22. Department of Music, University of Western Australia.

1984. ‘Warlbiri Music and Culture: Meaning in a Central Australian Song Series.’ In Problems and Solutions: Original Essays in Musicology, Presented to Alice M. Moyle, edited by Jamie Kassler and Jill Stubington, 186–203. Petersham: Hale and Iremonger.

1984. with Margaret Clunies Ross. ‘Formal Performance: The Relations of Tune, Text and Dance in Arnhem Land Clan Songs.’ Ethnomusicology 28 (2): 209–35. doi.org/10.2307/850758.

1985. Review of articles on Oceania in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 6th edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. Ethnomusicology 29 (1): 175–76. doi.org/10.2307/852351.

1985. with A. G. Bliss. Report: Aboriginal and Islander Telecommunications Services Study. Melbourne: Telecom Australia.

1986. ‘Australian Aboriginal Theatrical Movement.’ In Theatrical Movement: A Bibliographical Anthology, edited by Bob Fleshman, 601–24. Metuchen, New Jersey, and London: The Scarecrow Press.

1986. ‘Australian Religions: Modem Movements.’ In The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 1, edited by Mircea Eliade, 562–66. New York: Macmillan.

1986. ed. Rom: An Aboriginal Ritual of Diplomacy. AIAS new series, 59. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

1986. Review of Aboriginal Music: Education for Living; Cross-cultural Experiences from South Australia, by Catherine J. Ellis. Musicology Australia 9: 66–69. doi.org/10.1080/08145857.1986.10415166.

1987. ‘A Musical Interlude.’ In Australians to 1788, edited by D. J. Mulvaney and J. Peter White, 330–42. Broadway: Fairfax, Syme, and Weldon Associates.

1987. Edited with Tamsin Donaldson and Margaret Clunies Ross. Songs of Aboriginal Australia. Oceania Monograph, 32. Sydney: University of Sydney.

1987. ‘Recreating the Jukurrpa: Adaptation and Innovation of Songs and Ceremonies in Warlpiri Society.’ In Songs of Aboriginal Australia, edited by Margaret Clunies Ross, Tamsin Donaldson, and Stephen A. Wild, 97–120. Oceania Monograph, 32. Sydney: University of Sydney.

1988. ‘Aboriginal Music and Dance.’ In The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, edited by James Jupp, 174–81. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

1988. ‘Issues in the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of Traditional Music: The Case of Aboriginal Australia.’ In Proceedings of the Third National Folklore Conference, 51–55. Canberra: National Library of Australia, Australian Folk Trust Inc. (Also published in Music and Dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific, edited by Alice M. Moyle, 7–15. Oceania Monograph, 41. Sydney: University of Sydney, 1992.)

1988. Songs of Aboriginal Australia. Cassette. AIAS 17. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

1989. Australian Aboriginal and Islander Music. 30 cm, 33 1/3 rpm disc. Poljazz (Poland) PSJ-166.

1989. Review of Alyawarra Music: Songs and Society in a Central Australian Community, by Richard M. Moyle. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1989 (1): 83–87.

1990. ‘A Central Australian Men’s Love Song.’ In The Honey-Ant Men’s Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems, edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Martin Duwell, 49–69. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

1991. Review of Australian Made, Australian Played: Handcrafted Musical Instruments from Didjeridu to Synthesiser, by Michael Atherton. Sounds Australian 30: 40–41.

1991. Review of Our Place, Our Music. Aboriginal Music: Australian Popular Music in Perspective, Volume 2. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1991 (2): 75–77.

1992. ‘Songs of Experience.’ The Musical Times 133: 336–38. doi.org/10.2307/1002557.

1994. ‘Aboriginal Use of Narrative: The Warlpiri of Northern-Central Australia.’ In Dance and Narrative: The Green Mill Dance Project Papers 1994, edited by Hilary Trotter, 80–83. Canberra: Australian Dance Council (Ausdance) Inc.

1994. ‘Australian Aboriginal Drama.’ In The Masks of Time, edited by A. M. Gibbs, 177–95. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities.

1994. ‘Australien: Aborigines.’ In Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, edited by Ludwig Finscher, vol. 1, 1052–69. Basel: Bärenreiter Kassel.

1994. ‘Instruments.’ In The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia, edited by D. Horton, vol. 1, 496–97. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

1994. ‘Reflections on Field Research in Aboriginal Australia: Central Australia and Arnhem Land.’ The World of Music 36 (1): 51–58.

1997. Entries in Oxford Companion to Australian Music, edited by Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press: ‘Aboriginal Music’ (1–10); ‘Burarra Music’ (87); ‘Corroboree’ (154); ‘Djambidj’ (179–80); ‘Warlpiri Music’ (577).

1998. ‘Australian Aboriginal Dance: An Overview.’ In International Encyclopedia of Dance, edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen, 219–23. New York: Oxford University Press.

1998. Entries in Australia and the Pacific Islands, edited by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and J. W. Love. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 9. New York: Garland Publishing: ‘Documentary Films: Australia’ (46–47); ‘Australian Festivals’ (59–62); ‘Music and Theatre: Australia’ (226–28); ‘The Music and Dance of Australia’ (408–15); ‘Recordings of Oceanic Music: Australia’ (987–989); with Tamsin Donaldson and Margaret Gummow, ‘Southeastern Australia’ (439–43).

1999. ‘ “What’s in a Name?” or “As Soon as You Cross One Boundary Another One Appears.” ’ Musicological Society of Australia Newsletter 51 (August): 19–28. (Keynote address to the 21st National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia)

2000. ‘Country and Western Music.’ In The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, 563–64. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2001. ‘Aboriginal Music and Dance.’ In The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origin, edited by James Jupp, 101–8. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001. ‘Forty Years of Facilitating: The Role of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Research on Indigenous Music and Dance in Australia.’ In Traditionalism and Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania, edited by Helen Reeves Lawrence and Don Niles, 165–75. Oceania Monograph, 52. Sydney: University of Sydney.

2003. ‘Aboriginal Music and Dance.’ In Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, 582–84. Sydney: Currency House.

2003. ‘Musicology.’ In Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, 577–80. Sydney: Currency House.

2003. Review of Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, by Allan Marett, Linda Barwick, and Lysbeth Ford. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2003 (1): 79–80.

2004. with P. G. Toner. ‘Introduction—World Music: Politics, Production and Pedagogy.’ Special issue, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5 (2): 95–112. doi.org/10.1080/1444221042000247652.

2006. ‘Ethnomusicology Down Under: A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes?’ Ethnomusicology 50 (2): 345–52. (50th anniversary commemorative issue.)

2010. ‘Preface.’ In Applied Ethnomusicology: Historical and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Klisala Harrison, Elizabeth Mackinlay, and Svanibor Pettan, ix–x. ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2012. ‘The Song Series: Aboriginal Australia’s Contribution to Ethnomusicological Theory?’ Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the Society for Oriental Music, 1–9. Ningbo, China: Ningbo University. (Also published as ‘Ge xilie: Aodaliya yuanzhumin dui minzu yinyxue lilun de gongxian?’ Xinhai Yinyue Xueyuan Xuebao [Journal of the Xinhai Conservatory of Music] 1: 3–9. Translated by Yu Hui, 2013.)

2013. Edited with Ruth Lee Martin, Aaron Corn, and Diane Roy. ‘One Common Thread: The Musical World of Laments.’ Special issue, Humanities Research 19 (3). Canberra: ANU E Press.

2014. Review of We Have the Song, So We Have the Land: Song and Ceremony as Proof of Ownership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Claims, by Grace Koch. Yearbook for Traditional Music: Book Notes, W8–9. ictmusic.org/ytm2014.