The Australian Aboriginal Heritage.
Sydney: Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1978. Second edition. Hardcover. Broad ranging Aboriginal cultural content, including the arts, story, myth and song; rock art; sculpture and bark painting; music and dance; and the future of aboriginal arts. With a chapter by Trevor Jones, the distinguished musicologist and expert didjeridu player, 'The Yiraki in NE Arnhem Land: Techniques and Styles'; and a chapter, 'Songs by Young Aborigines' by Alice Moyle, one of the early experts in Australian ethnomusicology and one of the founding members of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Large 4to, 320pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color; with line sketches, music notations, maps, select bibliography, index. Cream gilt pictorial boards with gilt aboriginal art at front cover, gilt title at spine. Pictorial mylar protected dj, with title in black on blue at front cover and at dj spine; sml chip base of dj spine. Discrete library stamp at verso of title page, with discard stamp as well. Internally bright and fresh, very good overall. Item #16516
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