The Imagined Sound Of Australian Literature And Music

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785270925

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The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music by Joseph Cummins Pdf

‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

Author : Robert Dixon,Ben Holgate,Joseph Cummins,Laura A. White,Bill Ashcroft,Salhia-Ben Messahel,Marc Delrez,Margaret Harris,Nathanael O’Reilly,Theodore F. Sheckels,Nicholas Birns,Liliana Zavaglia
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743325827

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Richard Flanagan by Robert Dixon,Ben Holgate,Joseph Cummins,Laura A. White,Bill Ashcroft,Salhia-Ben Messahel,Marc Delrez,Margaret Harris,Nathanael O’Reilly,Theodore F. Sheckels,Nicholas Birns,Liliana Zavaglia Pdf

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan’s contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature. Flanagan’s fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stories from a small region that have made their mark on a global scale. Considering his seven novels as well as his non-fiction, journalism and correspondence, this collection examines the historical and geographical factors that have shaped Flanagan’s representation of Tasmanian identity. This collection offers new insights into a determinedly regional writer, and the impact he has had on a local, national and global scale.

Author : Ashley Barnwell,Signe Ravn
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529228656

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Narrative Research Now by Ashley Barnwell,Signe Ravn Pdf

At a time of contested realities and a renewed focus on the power of personal stories, narrative research is as relevant as ever. But while it has been praised for ‘giving voice’ to individuals and highlighting how they make sense of the social world, critics are starting to question which voices are being heard, or allowed to speak, and which experiences are made to count. Supported by the editors’ popular podcast Narrative Now, this interdisciplinary volume addresses timely concerns about representation, power, voice, and the ethics of storytelling. Contributors explore the capacities and limitations of narrative research, and map out new directions for the field while honouring its legacy.

Author : Loretta Barnard,Ingeborg van Teeseling
Publisher : Moshpit Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1923065335

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Imagining Australia by Loretta Barnard,Ingeborg van Teeseling Pdf

Imagining Australia is a story of our nation, told by the artists who made it what it is today. Writers, painters, musicians, filmmakers: they hold up a mirror and tell us who we are.

Author : Elizabeth McMahon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783085354

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Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination by Elizabeth McMahon Pdf

Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.

Author : Hazel Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317529033

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The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship by Hazel Smith Pdf

This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, disability studies, musicology, psychoanalysis, music psychology, emotion and affect theory, new media, cosmopolitanism, globalization, ethnicity and biraciality. Chapters range from critical analyses of the representation of music and the musical profession in contemporary novels to examination of the forms and cultural meanings of contemporary intermedia and multimedia works. The book argues that conjunctions between words and music create emergent structures and meanings that can facilitate culturally transgressive and boundary- interrogating effects. In particular, it conceptualises ways in which word-music relationships can facilitate cross-cultural exchange as musico-literary miscegenation, using interracial sexual relationships as a metaphor. Smith also inspects the dynamics of improvisation and composition, and the different ways they intersect with performance. Furthermore, the book explores the huge changes that computer-based real-time algorithmic text and music generation are making to the literature-music nexus. This volume provides fascinating insight into the relationship between literature and music, and will be of interest to those fields as well as New Media and Performance Studies.

Author : Judith Ryan,Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059314537

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Imagining Australia by Judith Ryan,Chris Wallace-Crabbe Pdf

Introducing about Australia: Literature and culture.

Author : David Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135313814

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Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature by David Callahan Pdf

The contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from a variety of international perspectives.

Author : Gerry Bloustien
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1862545006

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Musical Visions by Gerry Bloustien Pdf

Musical Visions presents a unique way of thinking about and debating the many facets of contemporary popular music. Under the theme of music as sound, image and movement, this book brings together a vibrant range of perspectives.

Author : Peter Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521881654

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The Cambridge History of Australian Literature by Peter Pierce Pdf

Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Author : Thomas L. Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317052531

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Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music by Thomas L. Bell Pdf

Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics. The book's editors have brought together a team of scholars to discuss the latest innovative thinking on music and its geographies, illustrated with a fascinating range of case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain.

Author : C. D. Narasimhaiah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : OCLC:1072566684

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An Introduction to Australian Literature by C. D. Narasimhaiah Pdf

Author : Catherine Hoad
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787691674

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Australian Metal Music by Catherine Hoad Pdf

This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question what it means to be Australian in the context of metal.

Author : Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819565172

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Wired for Sound by Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello Pdf

Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.

Author : Martin Buzacott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018084429

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Music Australia 1981 by Martin Buzacott Pdf