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Shine your light: The life and lessons of Madeline Woleg

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posted on 2023-01-12, 00:33 authored by Naomi SunderlandNaomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Joel Spence, Rae Cooper, Kayla Harris
This output is part of a suite of self-published, peer reviewed community and creative resources from the Australian Research Council funded Remedy Project: First Nations music as a determinant of health

Funding

Australian Research Council (ARC) (Grant ID: IN210100044, Grant title: The role of First Nations music as a determinant of health)

History

ERA Category

  • Original Creative Work - Textual

Funding type

  • Other

Eligible major research output?

  • No

Research Statement

Research background: This research seeks to understand the ways in which First Nations People use music as a means of advocacy. The research builds on three years of arts based community development activity in Vanuatu with local musicians and cultural leaders. The research was funded by the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and an Academic Studies Program grant from Griffith Health and the University of the Sunshine Coast. The project was titled Songs of Self Determination and involves musicians from Australia and Vanuatu. A key aim was to collect musicians' and song writers' accounts of how musical performance and distribution promotes self-determination, health, and human rights for First Nations' Peoples in Australia and Vanuatu. Research contribution: This research spans Indigenous studies, performing and creative arts, and social work fields of study. The study and related outputs provides a contemporary understanding of how diverse First Nations musicians and song writers practice self-advocacy and assertion that in turn shapes powerful social and environmental determinants of health for their communities. Research activities included in depth interviews and storytelling with First Nations songwriters and musicians in Australia and Vanuatu and group songwriting on topics that were important to community members. Research significance: This is a community requested output from research. First Nations health is an international priority. Existing literature demands strengths based and culturally safe forms of health promotion and research with First Nations Peoples internationally. This research offered all of those things through privileging and investigating the role of cultural and musical self-determination and self-advocacy in shaping known social and environmental determinants of health. The community and academic outputs from the project document both First Nations voice and the impact of their sovereign musical and cultural activity.

Publisher

Self published electronic and paperback peer reviewed community requested output

Place of publication

Issuu.com

Publisher URL

Confidential / Culturally sensitive

  • No

Confidentiality / Sensitivity explanation

This is a community requested output from research in Mota Lava, Vanuatu. The output was overseen by the Woleg family. The researchers themed and edited stories shared during fieldwork but aimed to privilege community and family members' voices and stories.

Size of work

34 pages

Estimated size of audience

300

Was the work disseminated?

  • Yes

Form of dissemination

  • Other

Scope of dissemination

  • International

Did the work go on tour?

  • No

Location of work

Mota Lava, Vanuatu

Series title

The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health

Comments

This is a community requested output from research. Researchers themed and edited stories for this booklet but privileged community voices and stories throughout. The output was overseen and approved by Woleg family members.

Reference number

1375148

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    360399 Music not elsewhere classified451822 Pacific Peoples social work and social justice211101 Pacific Peoples determinants of health330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)Internal publicationQ1_3 Textual (Major Research)130101 DesignAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HealthAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts

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