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Abstract
This essay asks and attempts to address questions of identity that are raised by the practice of African drumming in Australia. These are as follows: what stereotypes are invoked in the marketing and practice of African drumming events in Australia, and do these stereotypes remain fixed in a context where participants have diverse ethnic heritage, and drum for a variety of reasons? Does the popularity of African drumming in Australia across a wide range of social and ideological groupings point to a desire to trace roots to an ultimate African homeland? Can this popularity also be read as a ‘re-embedding’ response in reaction to the disembedded1 aspects of a globalised, particularly urban, Australia?
Recommended Citation
Friend, Annalise, African drumming in Australia: White men can’t drum?, Kunapipi, 30(2), 2008.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol30/iss2/14
