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RESEARCH MANUAL
MUSIC IN AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES
This is an electronic book publication in progress by Robyn Holmes & Jeff Brownrigg © 1999. The following is an overview of chapter headings:
LOCATING SOURCES AND REFERENCES
- TYPES OF COLLECTORS/COLLECTIONS
- Institutions
- Societies and Organisations
- Private
- Commercial and other sources
- Venues
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- INTELLECTUAL ORGANISATION OF TYPES OF MATERIALS
- Sound recordings
- Oral history
- Moving image (film, video, multimedia)
- Pictorial
- Books and other published materials
- Newspapers and Journals
- Ephemera
- Manuscripts
- Printed music
- Unpublished materials
- Musical Instruments
- Artefacts
- Other material
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- SEARCHING STRATEGIES
- Electronic searching
- Using Finding Aids:
- - web, databases
- - guides, handbooks and indexes,
- - bibliographies and directories
- - commercial records and correspondence files
- - organisations' and societies' records and publications
- Lateral thinking, creativity and imagination
- Networking (electronic and traditional dialogue)
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- RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
- Intellectual property
- - copyright
- - ethics
- - sensitivities to collectors researchers and families
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- RESEARCH PROCEDURES
- Questions and strategies for research Establishing the research framework and tasks Identifying and organising research materials
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- METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
- Handling primary sources
- - manuscript (correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks etc)
- - unpublished materials
- - musical scores
- Using printed sources
- - books and journals
- - newspapers and pamphlets
- - publishers' and commercial catalogues
- - public records
- - ephemera
- - printed music
- - unpublished, eg theses
- Handling non-written sources
- - sound recordings (including broadcasts)
- - moving image (film, video, multi-media)
- - pictorial
- - musical instruments
- - other artefacts
- Oral sources
- - collecting oral history
- - field work
- - interviewing techniques
ISSUES IN INTERPRETATION
ORAL HISTORY: interpretation and analysis
PUBLISHED MUSIC CRITICISM: newspapers, journals, memoirs and other sources
USING SCRAPBOOKS, DIARIES and CORRESPONDENCE
KNOWING THE MUSICAL SCORE
UNDERSTANDING MUSICAL COMMUNITY and CONTEXT
USING SOUND, IMAGE and MOVING IMAGE
AUDIENCES, VENUES and OTHER CONTEXTS
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
APPROACHES
TYPES OF PRESENTATION
MUSIC EDITING
ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM
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