Chie Sakakibara is a PhD candidate in Cultural Geography at the University of Oklahoma, a specialist in Inupiat culture, and a  consultant to the Center's repatriation project with the Inupiat community in Alaska.




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David Novak will offer a talk entitled “No Source, No Signal: Global Media Circulation and the Cultural Meanings of Noise” as part of The Society of Fellows Fall Luncheon Lecture Series.

Lunch will be provided.

Among Aboriginal musicians from remote Central Australian desert communities, performances in white-dominated towns are commonly portrayed as desirable occasions for engaging with a white-dominated socio-musical realm. This seminar explores how such racially informed cross-cultural notions are put to work in the accumulation of Aboriginal male and musician status. I then describe how Aboriginal town gigs are in fact organised, carried out and evaluated by various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholders. I suggest that instead of producing congenial cross-cultural exchanges, most Aboriginal town gigs are particularly powerful and passionate mono-cultural happenings for the reproduction of real and imagined division of “blackfella” and “whitefella” domains, with distinct forms of sociability.