Professional Organisations
To Gordon Spearritt, Music Department, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 30/11/84
Describes Alice’s hopes for a South Pacific Colloquium, which came to fruition in Townsville in 1988. Alice edited a volume, published in 1992, of papers and discussion from the Colloquium entitled Music and dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific : the effects of documentation on the living tradition.
(MS3501/1/109/29)
To Dieter Christensen, Department of Music, Columbia University, New York, 02/83
Outlines Alice’s plans for increasing membership of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). At the time of this letter, Alice was ICTM Liaison Officer in Australia.
(MS3501/109/11)
To Grace Koch, [AIAS, Canberra], 05/09/79
Offers to give a joint paper on the cataloguing of Australian Aboriginal music at the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA) conference in Cambridge, U.K. in 1980. The paper was published as "Computerised cataloguing of field recorded music"in the November 1980 issue of the IASA Phonographic Bulletin. Grace Koch became Alice’s Research Assistant at the AIAS in 1975, just after Alice completed her PhD. Alice remained mentor and friend to her for the rest of Alice’s life.
(MS3501/1/100/24) click here for transcript
To Claes Cnattingius, Head, Record Library, [Swedish Radio], Stockholm, 12/11/80
Response to invitation to present a paper on folk music at the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA) conference in Budapest in 1988. Alice presented a paper, ‘Bartok’s legacy and the documentation and dissemination of Australian folk and Aboriginal music’ which was subsequently published in the March 1982 issue of the IASA Phonographic Bulletin.
(MS3501/1/104/13)
To Helen Harrison, Secretary-General, International Association of Sound Archives (IASA), [London], 01/05/83
Passes on her apologies for not being able to attend the conference in Washington, D.C. and explains her use of the term, ‘audiography’ to distinguish listings of audio material from the term, ‘bibliography'. Alice was a member of the IASA Cataloguing Committee at the time of this letter.
(MS3501/1/114/1)
To Frank Calloway, Department of Music, University of Western Australia, 07/04/82
Accepts an invitation to present the Presidential Address at the Australia New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) in May, 1983. Alice attended her first ANZAAS conference in 1964 where she presented a paper, ‘Aboriginal music and the Recording Machine'.
(MS3501/1/109/31)
Report [submitted to AIAS], 1982
Report on a conference held at Goroka, Papua New Guinea, where Alice appeared both as a presenter and as the Australian Liaison Officer of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM).
(MS3501/1/110/33)
To Ilaita Gigimat, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 20/07/83
Outlines her vision for the activities of a South Pacific Committee of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM).
(MS3501/1/115/8)