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Hi all,

I am doing an essay at the moment (due on Friday...eeek!) and I am looking at the taboo's of women playing the didgeridoo. I have got an excellent source by Karl Neuenfedlt that has a great chapter by Linda Barwick on the matter, but I'm looking for something that speaks to the migration from the north of Australia into the south and eastern parts.
Linda talks about the taboo's probably coming from the south and south eastern parts of Australia, as it does not seem to be present in her research of the traditions in the Kimberly and Arnhem Land areas (she mentions wangga and bunggurl). I want to look a little closer at that if I can, and find some articles/journals/books/websites to back it up!

If you know of anything, I would greatly appreciate your knowledge!

Thanks,
Ben

As you're on a tight timing schedule Ben, I would suggest you do a google 'scholar' search cross referencing didgeridoo and women, which should yield a number of articles, papers etc.

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws

Good luck.

Kyle

And if you want to share with us your result...

Regards

Hi All!
I finally got it all finished off.

Found a few really good articles/books on the topic.
One being 'The didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet' by Karl Neuenfeldt. Linda Barwick has a great chapter on Gender issues.

Karl Neuenfeldt also has a great article published by Australian Aboriginal Studies. It can be found here

Had a really good time looking into this topic, and feel I have learnt a great deal about the history of the movement of the didge.

Hope you enjoy!