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Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

John Whiteoak
Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia Book PDF

Author : John Whiteoak
Publisher : Currency Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114320018

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Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia by John Whiteoak Pdf

This publication is unique in its comprehensiveness and recognision of cultural diversity and a broad notion of community. It covers the history of concert music, opera, ballet, music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity, Aboriginal music, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance. It embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific. There's sound art, computer music, electroacoustics, belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos and much more. Over two hundred academics, practitioners and private researchers from all parts of Australia and beyond are among this book's contributors.

The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

John Whiteoak,Aline Scott-Maxwell
The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia Book PDF

Author : John Whiteoak,Aline Scott-Maxwell
Publisher : Currency House Incorporated
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dance
ISBN : 0868192600

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The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia by John Whiteoak,Aline Scott-Maxwell Pdf

The book not only covers the history of concert music, opera and ballet in Australia; of music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity; of Aboriginal music and dance and its appropriation, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance, but embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific; sound art, computer music and electroacoustics; belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos -- and much more.

“Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance

John Whiteoak
Take Me to Spain Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance Book PDF

Author : John Whiteoak
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037930

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“Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance by John Whiteoak Pdf

Australians have been transported to an imaginary Spain from at least the 1830s, when cachuchas were first danced on the Sydney stage. In Take Me to Spain John Whiteoak explores the rich tapestry of Australians’ fascination with all thing Spanish, from the voluptuous sensuality of Lola Montez to operas featuring señoritas, toreadors and Gypsies, and from evocative silent and later Spain-themed Hollywood movies to the dazzlingly creative artistry of the flamenco dancers and guitarists who toured Australia in the 1960s and ’70s. Examining the diverse ways that Spanish music and dance have been mediated or hybridised to cater for Australian popular taste, this landmark study reveals how Hispanic traditions have become integral to the cultural history of the nation.

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers

David Symons
Australia s Jindyworobak Composers Book PDF

Author : David Symons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000206449

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Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers by David Symons Pdf

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers examines the music of a historically and artistically significant group of Australian composers active during the later post-colonial period (1930s–c. 1960). These composers sought to establish a uniquely Australian identity through the evocation of the country’s landscape and environment, including notably the use of Aboriginal elements or imagery in their music, texts, dramatic scenarios or ‘programmes’. Nevertheless, it must be observed that this word was originally adopted as a manifesto for an Australian literary movement, and was, for the most part, only retrospectively applied by commentators (rather than the composers themselves) to art music that was seen to share similar aesthetic aims. Chapter One demonstrates to what extent a meaningful relationship may or may not be discernible between the artistic tenets of Jindyworobak writers and apparently likeminded composers. In doing so, it establishes the context for a full exploration of the music of Australian composers to whom ‘Jindyworobak’ has come to be popularly applied. The following chapters explore the music of composers writing within the Jindyworobak period itself and, finally, the later twentieth-century afterlife of Jindyworobakism. This will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers of Ethnomusicology, Australian Music and Music History.

The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels

Melinda Jewell
The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels Book PDF

Author : Melinda Jewell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 303430417X

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The Representation of Dance in Australian Novels by Melinda Jewell Pdf

This book is an analysis of the textual representation of dance in the Australian novel since the late 1890s. It examines how the act of dance is variously portrayed, how the word 'dance' is used metaphorically to convey actual or imagined movement, and how dance is written in a novelistic form. The author employs a wide range of theoretical approaches including postcolonial studies, theories concerned with class, gender, metaphor and dance and, in particular, Jung's concept of the shadow and theories concerned with vision. Through these variegated approaches, the study critiques the common view that dance is an expression of joie de vivre, liberation, transcendence, order and beauty. This text also probes issues concerned with the enactment of dance in Australia and abroad, and contributes to an understanding of how dance is 'translated' into literature. It makes an important contribution because the study of dance in Australian literature has been minimal, and this despite the reality that dance is prolific in Australian novels.

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Michael Hooper
Australian Music and Modernism 1960 1975 Book PDF

Author : Michael Hooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501348204

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Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975 by Michael Hooper Pdf

Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism defines "Australian Music" as an idea that emerged through the lens of the modernist discourse of the 1960s and 70s. At the same time that the new "Australian Music" was distinctive of the nation, it was also thoroughly connected to practices from Europe and shaped by a new engagement with the music of Southeast Asia. This book examines the intersection of nationalism and modernism at this formative time. During the early stages of "Australian Music" there was disagreement about what the idea itself ought to represent and, indeed, whether the idea ought to apply at all. Michael Hooper considers various perspectives offered by such composers as Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale, and Nigel Butterley and analyzes some of the era's significant works to articulate a complex understanding of "Australian Music" at its inception.

The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960

Rhoderick McNeill
The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 Book PDF

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317040866

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The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 by Rhoderick McNeill Pdf

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States. Likewise, Australian composers produced a steady stream of symphonies throughout the period from Federation (1901) through to the end of the 1950s. Stylistically, these works ranged from essays in late nineteenth-century romanticism, twentieth-century nationalism, neo-classicism and near-atonality. Australian symphonies were most prolific during the 1950s, with 36 local entries in the 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Symphony competition. This extensive repertoire was overshadowed by the emergence of a new generation of composers and critics during the 1960s who tended to regard older Australian music as old-fashioned and derivative. The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 is the first study of this neglected genre and has four aims: firstly, to show the development of symphonic composition in Australia from Federation to 1960; secondly, to highlight the achievement of the main composers who wrote symphonies; thirdly, to advocate the restoration and revival of this repertory; and, lastly, to take a step towards a recasting of the narrative of Australian concert music from Federation to the present. In particular, symphonies by Marshall-Hall, Hart, Bainton, Hughes, Le Gallienne and Morgan emerge as works of particular note.

Changing Stations

Bridget Griffen-Foley
Changing Stations Book PDF

Author : Bridget Griffen-Foley
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780868409184

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Changing Stations by Bridget Griffen-Foley Pdf

Following the development of the most pervasive medium in Australia, this is the first full-scale, national history of the country's commercial radio. From the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through the introduction of digital radio in 2009, this sweeping study moves from Sydney to Adelaide, Launceston to Cairns, Broken Hill to Albany. Exploring the varied programming genres of drama, music, quiz shows, sports, and politics, the in-depth research traces the engagement of commercial radio with various communities of Australian listeners. In addition, many of the iconic names of Australian radio are featured, including George Edwards, Grace Gibson, Jack Davey, Bob Dyer, Bob Rogers, Norman Banks, Andrea, Brian White, John Laws, and Alan Jones.

Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.)

Roger Covell
Australia s Music Themes of a New Society 2nd ed Book PDF

Author : Roger Covell
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037831

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Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.) by Roger Covell Pdf

Described on its first publication in 1967 as “a scholarly account of Australian music that is also entertaining social history”, Roger Covell’s Austrlaia’s Music: Themes of a New Society has become a classic of Australian music history for its beautifully written explorations of almost two hundred years of music-making across classical, Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic traditions. This revised edition, including more than sixty musical examples, is supplemented by a new postscript written by the author.

Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne

Simon Purtell
Tuning the Antipodes Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne Book PDF

Author : Simon Purtell
Publisher : Lyrebird Press Australia lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037855

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Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne by Simon Purtell Pdf

Examining the many controversies associated with pitch standards in Melbourne over more than a hundred years, Simon Purtell discovers their impact on the tuning of the city’s orchestras and organs, as well as its defence, municipal and Salvation Army bands. This fascinating history involves famous local and touring singers, conductors and organists, including Nellie Melba, Malcolm Sargent and William McKie, revealing just how complex a problem it was to ensure that Melbourne’s music-makers remained in tune. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has nothing on the saga of ‘Pitch, pitch, that cursed pitch’: the seemingly endless and frequently caustic attempts to establish a uniform performing pitch for music in the Antipodes. It is a typically Melburnian drama of mixed deference to Britain and stubborn upholding of local interests that the author so eloquently and patiently chronicles, and it ranges from the almost theocratic intervention of Dame Nellie Melba at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival of 1972. At the same time, it will have been a battle taking place comparably in all the major cities of the British Empire and beyond, though each with its peculiar twists and turns. What Simon Purtell has done is show us, in immaculate detail, just how pervasive and intricate, not to mention costly, this tectonic realignment of a fundamental element of musical infrastructure must have been in all places over a very long period of time” (Emeritus Professor Stephen Banfield, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, University of Bristol).

Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I

Jane W. Davidson,Michael Halliwell,Stephanie Rocke
Opera Emotion and the Antipodes Volume I Book PDF

Author : Jane W. Davidson,Michael Halliwell,Stephanie Rocke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000299861

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Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I by Jane W. Davidson,Michael Halliwell,Stephanie Rocke Pdf

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera’s staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in opera. Yet few contemplate the impact that the customary cultural practices of specific times and places have upon opera’s ability to move emotions. Taking Australia as a case study, this two-volume collection of extended essays demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance but are at least partly produced, defined, and regulated by culture. Spanning approximately 170 years of opera production in Australia, the authors show how the emotions associated with the specific cultural context of a nation steeped in egalitarian aspirations and marked by increasing levels of multiculturalism have adjusted to changing cultural and social contexts across time. Volume I adopts an historical, predominantly nineteenth-century perspective, while Volume II applies historical, musicological, and ethnological approaches to discuss subsequent Australian operas and opera productions through to the twenty-first century. With final chapters pulling threads from the two volumes together, Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes establishes a model for constructing emotion history from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory

Gavin Holman
Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800 2018 a historical directory Book PDF

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory by Gavin Holman Pdf

Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county

The Brass Band Bibliography

Gavin Holman
The Brass Band Bibliography Book PDF

Author : Gavin Holman
Publisher : Gavin Holman
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Brass Band Bibliography by Gavin Holman Pdf

9th edition, 2019. A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009)

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl
Made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Book PDF

Author : Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317270478

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Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand by Shelley Brunt,Geoff Stahl Pdf

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music

André De Quadros
The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music Book PDF

Author : André De Quadros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521111737

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The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music by André De Quadros Pdf

Bringing together perspectives on history, global activity and professional development, this Companion provides a unique overview of choral music.