Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989831
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$205,000.00
Summary
The Australian Music Navigator: research infrastructure for discovering, accessing and analysing Australia's musical landscape. The aim of the Australian Music Navigator initiative is to enhance the research, analysis, discoverability and understanding of Australian art music practice through the development of an innovative online facility. In addition to enabling access to digital sound and score objects, the facility will allow for sophisticated explorations of the rich inter-relationships be ....The Australian Music Navigator: research infrastructure for discovering, accessing and analysing Australia's musical landscape. The aim of the Australian Music Navigator initiative is to enhance the research, analysis, discoverability and understanding of Australian art music practice through the development of an innovative online facility. In addition to enabling access to digital sound and score objects, the facility will allow for sophisticated explorations of the rich inter-relationships between creators, performs, works, manifestations, events, genres, venues, awards and research. This infrastructure will ensure the prominence and accessibility of Australian music as a subject for research, and thereby contribute to our collective ability to engage with and understand our musical heritage.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100216
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$345,000.00
Summary
Emotions, language and culture in Arnhem Land (Katherine region). This project aims to increase our understanding of emotional language and cultural practices about emotions among Indigenous Australian groups. Emotion is a fundamental human experience, yet different languages provide very different ways of talking about it. What are the consequences of this? Are these differences culturally constrained? Might differences in the grammar of a language influence the way its speakers express emotion ....Emotions, language and culture in Arnhem Land (Katherine region). This project aims to increase our understanding of emotional language and cultural practices about emotions among Indigenous Australian groups. Emotion is a fundamental human experience, yet different languages provide very different ways of talking about it. What are the consequences of this? Are these differences culturally constrained? Might differences in the grammar of a language influence the way its speakers express emotions, or even the way they experience emotions? This project seeks to describe and compare the way emotions are expressed in five Aboriginal languages of Arnhem Land. Four of these languages are endangered and the project will also provide the urgent documentation needed to preserve them.Read moreRead less