Dr Dan Bendrups - Griffith University

Site Degrees

B Arts, B Music (Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Research expertise

With Conrich, I, Smith, R, Harris, M and Wahl, F. Easter Island Myths and Popular Culture, Middlesbrough: Museums and Galleries, Middlesbrough Council (2010)
Music on the Edge: Selected Papers from the 2007 IASPM-ANZ Conference, Dunedin: IASPM-ANZ, ISBN: 978-0-9757747-2-4 (2008)

Latin Down Under: Latin American Migrant Music in Australia and New Zealand. Popular Music 30(2): 191-207 (2011)
Sounds of Easter Island: Music and Cultural Representation in Ogú y Mampato en Rapanui. Animation Journal 17: 72-85 (2009)
Navegando, Navegando: Easter Island Fusion and Cultural Performance. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 10(2): 115-28 (2009)
With Hoddinott, G. Brass Bands and Orchestras in New Zealand: Band Participation as seen by Orchestral Brass Musicians. Context 32: 61-71 (2008)
Pacific Festivals as Dynamic Contact Zones: The Case of Tapati Rapa Nui. Shima 1(2): 14-28 (2008)
Easter Island Music and the Voice of Kiko Pate: A Biographical History of Sound Recording. The World of Music 49(1): 112-127 (2007)
Researchers, Musicians or Record Producers? Negotiating Roles and Responsibilities in Music Ethnography. Context 31: 19-34 (2007)
With Johnson, H. Gore Gold Guitars: The Place of Country in New Zealand. Perfect Beat 8(3): 52-67 (2007)
War in Rapanui Music: A History of Cultural Representation. Yearbook for Traditional Music 38: 18-32 (2006)
Melbourne's Latin American Music Scene. Perfect Beat 5(2): 19-29 (2001)
The Liminal Researcher in Ethnomusicology: An Approach to the Study of Latin American Migrant Music. Context 20: 35-42 (2001)

Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact, in Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia, ed. B. Abels, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp.261-276 (2011)
With Johnson, H. Migrant Music and Cultural Identity, in Home, Land and Sea: Situating Music in Aotearoa New Zealand, ed. G. Keam and T. Mitchell, Auckland: Pearson, pp.73-88 (2011)
Migrant Music in New Zealand: Issues and Concepts, in Many Voices: Music and National Identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand, ed. H. Johnson, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp.30-38 (2010)
Fusión Rapa Nui: Mito Manutomatoma and the Translocation of Easter Island Music in Chilean Popular Culture, in Cultural Transformations: Perspectives on Translocation in a Global Age, ed. C. Prentice, V. Devidas, and H. Johnson, Rodopi, Amsterdam; New York, pp.137-158 (2010)
Rapanui (Easter Island), in The Rough Guide to World Music, ed. S. Broughton, M. Ellingham and J. Lusk, London, Rough Guides Ltd, p.731 (2009)
Oceanic Encounters on Record: The Social History and Significance of the Rapanui Song Sausau, in Oceanic Music Encounters: Essays in Honour of Mervyn McLean, ed. R. Moyle, RAL, Auckland: pp.35-45 (2007)
'Latin' Music and Dance Since 1970, in The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, ed. J. Whiteoak and A. Scott-Maxwell, Currency House and Currency Press, Sydney: pp. 393-394 (2003)

The Representation of Rapanui (Easter Island) in Feature Film, in Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Select Refereed Papers from the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, ed. Radner, H and Fossen, P, Dunedin: Centre for Research on National Identity, pp.135-145 (2009)
A Cultural History of the Christchurch Latvian Choir, in Music on the Edge: Select Proceedings of the 2007 IASPM-ANZ Conference, ed. D. Bendrups, IAPSM-ANZ, Dunedin: pp.9-14 (2008)
Returning Borrowed Goods: The Motive for Establishing a Rapanui Music Archive, in Proceedings of the 1st International Small Island Cultures Conference, ed. M. Evans, SICRI, Sydney: pp.2-13 (2005)
The Contemporary Music Culture of Rapanui (Easter Island), in Musicology and Globalization: Proceedings of the International Congress in Shizuoka 2002, The Musicological Society of Japan, Tokyo: pp.468-471 (2004)

Review of Biddle, I. and Knights, V. eds. Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location: Between the Global and the Local. Lied und Populäre Kultur/Song and Popular Culture 54 (2009)
Review of Hampshire Dance Tunes: Country Dance Tunes from the Pyle Family Manuscript 1822. The World of Music 51(1): 165-66 (2009)
Review of Christian, G. White Rose. The World of Music 49(2): 165-167 (2007)
Review of Moyle, R. Songs From the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 8(2) (online version) (2007)
Review of Paz, S. Bandera Mía: Songs of Argentina. Ethnomusicology 51(2): 366-368 (2007)
Review of McCann, B. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Perfect Beat 7(2): 68-70 (2005)

With Burns, R. Sountracks and Inventions: Subject2change featuring Pedro Carneiro, CD, Ode Records, CDMANU5119, 2011
Gamelan and Strings: New Music and Traditional Works by Puspawarna Gamelan and Strork String Orchestra, featuring Joko Susilo, CD, NZMIC, 2010
Lai Atskan Dziesmas: 60 Years of Latvian Music in Christchurch, New Zealand, double CD, University of Otago, 2009

Graeme Downes, Eden [film score] produced by Rebecca Tansley, screened at ION International Film Festival, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 12 December 2009
The Verlaines Corporate Moronic, CD, independent release in conjunction with dunedinmusic.com, 2009
The Verlaines Yangtze Cod and Chips, independent release, 2008
Ian Chapman Dr. Glam Presents "Glitter Spreader", CD/DVD, Ode Records, CDMANU5039, 2008
subject2change #1, CD, independent release, STC001, 2008
The Verlaines Pot Boiler, CD, Flying Nun, FNCD501, 2007