There are many ways in which a campus LGBT office or center can be established. This chapter tells the story of one institution's journey to creating such a center and the tools used to make that creation happen.
In a recent issue of the Journal, Professor R. E. Lonsdale argued that the relatively successful American experience of decentralization suggests serious difficulties in attempting a comparable programme in Australia. His comparisons, while illuminating many of the problems which must be faced by a realistic regional development policy, are unduly pessimistic in their assessment of the Australian situation. The barriers to urban dispersal in Australia lie less in economic and social conditions than in political attitudes and governmental structures.
The study of Aboriginal musician Gnamayarrahe Waitairie' s collaboration on the cross-cultural Claim and Pundulumura projects also develops a number of themes previously explored in v 1n2 'Sound Alliances'; an issue which addressed the relation between indigenous peoples, syncretic musics and the institutions and agencies of the Western recording industry
The author considers a tension present in the different performance styles of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal contestants in gumleaf playing competitions. Drawing from extensive research throughout the decade, she 'animates' the scene through detailed explanations of gum leaf playing styles and the history that has· brought them to existence. (gum/leafplaying remains an identifiably Australian activity. A leafist places his/her instrument against the lips and blows air across it; the precise method and the quality of mid to high-pitched sounds produced varies markedly depending on the leafist's expertise and the species of eucalyptus selected.)
Before the so-called 'Golden Age' which Hawaiian music experienced internationally from the 1930s-1950s, various visiting and locally based Australian troupes featured hula dancing as part of their acts• This short article serves as a postscript to the comprehensive studies of Hawaiian music and hula dancing in Australia previously published in this journal by Bambrick and Miller (1994) and Coyle and Coyle (1995) and documents the recruitment of renowned Yuin elder Gaboo Ted Thomas to a Hawaiian-oriented performance troupe in the 1920s.
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