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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, Fiona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Australia--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music and geography.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

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 Dhal̲wangu 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index.

Includes discography.

Includes Web resources.

ISBN:

0754640728

9780754640721

OCLC:

62302433