By Dr John James Napier

Journal articles

Napier J, 2019, 'Structure and Proportion in Hindustani Ālāp', Empirical Musicology Review, 14, pp. 53 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v14i1-2.5502

Napier J, 2019, 'Structure and Proportion in Hindustani Ālāp.', Empirical Musicology Review, 14, pp. 53 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v14i1-2.5502

Napier J, 2019, '"There Should Be No Performances" Relocating Kodava Songs in a Changing Tradition', PULS Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, 4, pp. 103 - 122, http://carkiv.musikverk.se/www/epublikationer/Puls_04.pdf#_ga=2.195055020.1001030736.1560199674-1690871592.1551437121

Napier JJ, 2017, ''Kodava Hero', Appear Only Once Before Me’: The Assimilation of ‘Internal Exotics’ in Indian Film Songs.', Journal of Music Research Online, 8, http://www.jmro.org.au/index.php/mca2/article/view/181

Napier JJ, 2011, '“This is our culture, only for ourselves. Thank you for being interested”: Kodava song and the public non-assertion of difference', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 4, pp. 1 - 14, http://www.commarts.uws.edu.au/gmjau/v4_2010_2/john_napier_RA.html

Napier JJ, 2007, 'Of Jogis and mediators, musicologists and administrators: an elaborated field note', Australian Humanities Review, 41, pp. 1 - 17

Napier JJ, 2007, 'The Distribution of Authority in the Performance of North Indian Vocal Music', Ethnomusicology Forum, 16, pp. 271 - 301

Napier JJ, 2006, 'A 'failed' unison or conscious differentiation: The notion of 'heterophony' in North Indian vocal performance', International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 37, pp. 85 - 108

Napier JJ, 2006, 'A subtle novelty: Repetition, transmission and the valorisation of innovation within North Indian classical music', Critical Studies in Improvisation, 1, pp. 1 - 17

Napier JJ, 2006, 'Re-organization and rhetoric: Changes in the social organization of North Indian classical music', Musicology Australia, 27, pp. 35 - 53

Napier JJ, 2005, 'The svarmandal and its 'ancestors': from organological to aesthetic', Galpin Society Journal, 58, pp. 124 - 131

Napier JJ, 2003, 'An old tradition but a very new practice', Asian Music, 35, pp. 115 - 134

Napier JJ, 2003, 'An old tradition but a very new practice: Accompaniment and thesaturation aesthetic in Indian music', Asian Music, 35, pp. 115 - 134

Napier JJ, 2001, 'Review of Geng Gong:Not just music (sound recording)', Music Forum, 8, pp. 45 - 46

Napier JJ, 2001, 'Review of Tufa: Tufa (sound recording)', Music Forum, pp. 44 - 45

Napier JJ, 2001, 'Review of Tufa: Tufa (Sound recording)', Music Forum, 8, pp. 44 - 45

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