Grace Koch
Grace Koch is an ethnomusicologist, audiovisual archivist and researcher in Australian Aboriginal land rights and native title.
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Indigenous Songs of Victoria »
Publication date: 2025
The rich diversity of Indigenous songs from Victoria in this book represent only a tiny fraction of what was a cultural treasure of our country. The authors have been able to bring together here well over 100 different song texts, many with translations, with musical transcriptions and analysis, and with the cultural context of these songs. The songs stand as an example of the rich cultural heritage of Indigenous people in Victoria.
The aim of Indigenous Songs of Victoria is to bring the rich cultural knowledge and artistic skill of the song-makers of Indigenous Victoria to a wider audience. In addition, the book makes the sources of these songs in manuscripts, old journals and sound recordings accessible to Indigenous people, often for the first time in decades, and for the first time in a single location.
Indigenous Songs of Victoria is dedicated to all the songsters, the clever men and women of traditional Indigenous societies who made these artistic treasures, as well as the many people who have valued, written down or otherwise recorded these songs, so that we may hear, read and be delighted by them today.
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