Our Home Our Land Essay

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Authors: Neuenfeldt, K and Oien, K
Year: 2000,
Article title: 'Our Home, Our Land ... Something to Sing About': An Indigenous Music Recording as Identity Narrative,
Journal title: Aboriginal History,
Vol. 24, [27]-38.
ISSN: 0314-8769.

Full reference in correct APA or Harvard style (specify which) : Neuenfeldt, K & Oien, K 2000, 'Our Home, Our Land ... Something to Sing About': An Indigenous Music Recording as Identity Narrative, Aboriginal History, Vol. 24, [27]-38.

Summary of Theme and Scope:
What is the main point of the article? What areas related to identity does it cover?

This article is about how cultural identity relate to CD recordings; what Indigenous people represents in their songs; and why they record their songs. The article covers one of the ways which represent and share of their Indigenous Identity. Connection to course concepts of Identity:
Identify the connections to the content of the course so far. What aspect/s of identity are being discussed?

It is well known that Indigenous people have had strong connection to their land and it is one of the Indigenous Identities. Then, actually our home our land ‘consists of twenty- four predominantly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander songs emphasising the relationship between indigenous people and their land’(p. 27-28).
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It may be complex for even Indigenous people themselves. Neuenfeldt and Oien (2000, p. 33) state that: ‘Each community would have had particular relationships to past, space, and culture and music would have helped to articulate and reinforce those relationships’. Therefore, Indigenous music can convey each community’s feature to other people. It may identify what thought and belief does an Indigenous have. Thus, to record their music as identity narrative means to record a way which can identify who he or she

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