The Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Hearing the Music of Early NSW, 1788-1860’ (2021-23) seeks to use historical and creative practice research methods to sound Indigenous song and European settler vocal and instrumental music, and to develop a balanced historical account of the musical soundscape of early colonial NSW. Australian music studies have commonly treated Aboriginal and non-Indigenous musics as separate traditions (usually segregated into ethnomusicology and musicology). In this project, we are developing a newly inclusive understanding of colonial music history across genres, interrogating adaptive musical change, cross-cultural influences and entangled cultural histories. 

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