Sounding solidarity, sovereignty and citizenship in post-war music exchange. This project aims to generate new perspectives on Australian/US transnational music history by investigating how Aboriginal

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Sounding solidarity, sovereignty and citizenship in post-war music exchange. This project aims to generate new perspectives on Australian/US transnational music history by investigating how Aboriginal/African American post-war musical encounters impacted Australian and US democracy discourses in the lead-up to the 1967 Australian Constitutional Referendum and the 1964/65/68 Civil Rights Acts in the US. Through artistic research methods, we seek to draw back into practice the musical strategies for articulating sovereignty and solidarity that managed to change minds about the nature of citizenship in the post-war years. The benefits for understanding historical exchange between Aboriginal/African American musicians should be expansive for historical knowledge and flow on to impact curriculum and cultural programming.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3603 - Music. Lead: A/Prof Christopher Coady