Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land.
During the late 1970s, audio cassette technology became freely available in the Northern Australian Aboriginal reserve of Arnhem Land. Made for easy production and dissemination, magnetic tapes were loaded into mobile decks by clan leaders and distributed across the region. The transfer of clan-base...
| Publicado en: | Media, Culture & Society Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 141 - 161 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Jan2022
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