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The soundscapes of Australia : music, place and spirituality / edited by Fiona Richards.

Other author/creatorRichards, Fiona.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction. Spirit of place, spiritual journeys / Fiona Richards -- Landscape, spirit and music: an Australian story / Anne Boyd -- Colin Bright and the psyche of place / Christine Logan -- Women, spirituality, landscape: the music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson / Sally Macarthur -- Singing the land, singing the family: song, place and spirituality amongst the Yanyuwa / John Bradley and Elizabeth Mackinlay -- Words and music: Clive Douglas and the Jindyworobak manifesto / David Symons -- A case of discontiguity: musical and cultural irony in the situation of the Lubavitch community of Shepparton, Victoria / Kay Dreyfus and Bronia Kornhauser -- Visions of the great south land in Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros / Deborah Hayes -- Sing a country of the mind: the articulation of place in Dhalwangu song / Peter Toner -- European sounds, Australian echoes: the music of Marshall-Hall, Hill and Hart / Peter Tregear -- An expatriate Englishman: Fritz Hart in Australia / Anne-Marie Forbes -- Journeys across Australia: Ealing film scores of the 1940s and '50s / Fiona Richards -- From Port Essington to the Himalayas: music, place and spirituality in two contemporary Australian compositions / Linda Kouvaras -- To be alone: the theme of isolation in the music of Barry Conyngham / Gordon Kerry -- Sonic inscriptions: sound installation and acoustic art in Australia / Ros Bandt -- Spirit, place and power in Arnhem land traditional and Christian music / Fiona Magowan.
Abstract The aim of this volume is to look at some of the ways in which composers and performers have attempted to convey a sense of the place that is Australia through musical means. It offers 15 different perspectives on the ways in which music and the Australian landscape are intertwined.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-316), discography (pages 317-318), and index.
LCCN 2005033202
ISBN0754640728 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780754640721 (alk. paper)

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML360.5 .S69 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold