Diversity in Australia's Music

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Diversity in Australia's Music : themes, past, present, and for the future / edited by Dorottya Fabian and John Napier.

  • xviii, 310 p. : ill., music ; 22 cm.
  • Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing — 2018
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ISBN: 978-1-5275-0577-3

Contents note: Musical Practices in Australia: Reflections on the Past and Present / John Napier and Dorottya Fabian -- The Politics of Music in a New Society: Musical and Social Development in Canberra’s first 100 Years / Peter Campbell -- Concert Music in early Brisbane / Peter Roennfeldt -- Migrant Musicians and their Impact on the Emerging Music Making of the Hunter Valley, 1840-1880 / Helen English -- Towards an Australian National Opera? :Developments during the Later Post-Colonial Period 1930-1960 / David Symons -- Revitalising Desert Gospel Choral Music /Julie Rickwood -- Constructing Whiteness in Blacktown: Everyday Encounters with Diversity in Australia’s Music / Samantha Dieckmann -- The Company you Keep: Three South Asian Dance Companies in Contemporary Australia / John Napier -- Jiří Tancibudek (1921 - 2004): An Oboist Extraordinaire / Janice B. Stockigt -- Making the Obscure Familiar: Roger Covell’s Contribution to Opera in Sydney / Dorottya Fabian -- (Post?-)Feminism, “New Topicality” and the “New Empathy”: Australian Composers Working with the Concrete / Linda Kouvaras -- Hearing Nostalgia and Landscape in Australian Cinema and 'Australia' / Johnny Milner -- Australian Composition for Baroque Instruments: Exploring the Importance of Composer-Performer Collaborative Relationships in Twenty-First Century Composition / Vincent Giles, Elizabeth Welsh and Graeme Jennings -- Tura - Thirty Years of Building New Music Practice in Western Australia / Cat Hope and Adam Trainer -- Splinter at Mungo: The Art of Communication / Cor Fuhler.

Dedication note: "To Roger Covell".

Includes bibliography and index.


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