Reclaiming Rights and Responsibilities for Musicking on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island)
Music museum curatorship: Reclaiming rights and responsibilities for musicking on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Australia Author: Sandra Kirkwood 104578.pdf Abstract The Music Curator describes a staged approach to support the reclamation of rights and responsibilities for music-making on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), in southern Moreton Bay, Queensland. This is part of enabling a localised movement toward claiming agency for planning the future course of musical development—especially early childhood musical development. The stages are to firstly understand the local music history from the perspective of local people. Secondly, the person-environment-occupation transactions are described to understand people’s musical relationships to Country. The Person-Environment Occupation (P-E-O) Model, developed by Canadian occupational therapists (Mary Law and colleagues, 1996), is commonly used to assist ind...