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The sounds of aurora australis : a history of Australia's musical identity
- Title
- The sounds of aurora australis : a history of Australia's musical identity / Beatrice Dalov.
- Author
- Dalov, Beatrice
- Publication
- Brighton ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Williams, Natalie, 1977-
- Description
- xiv, 238 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Entrenched until recently in Western aesthetics, Australian composers are now developing a functional cultural identity expressed through a distinctly nationalistic musical idiom. Its ongoing formation, inspired by Australia's Aboriginal heritage and unique natural environment, seeks to distance the nations artistic developments from the geographically remote Occidental regions and emphasize its native cultures. Presently, however, mounting sociopolitical and ethical concerns surrounding the cultural borrowing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are problematizing the developing nationalistic idiom, as composers must determine whether the two groups share any legitimate connection beyond mere occupation of the same land, given their tense post-colonial history"--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Music.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-232) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Natalie Williams -- Preface -- Terra australis nondum cognita : colonization -- Earliest compositions and institutions, 1788-1834 -- Revolutionary figures and the first enunciations of a "national identity" : late nineteenth to early twentieth century -- The nerves of nationality : Australian musical possibilities (1924) and its impact on Australian music -- Interlude: Patriotism, nationalism, and somewhere in between : the turmoil of the twentieth century -- The great composer who came to define Australia's sound for the rest of the world : Peter Sculthorpe, 1929-2014 -- Sometimes I realize that the music I'm speaking has a broad accent : Ross Edwards, b. 1943 -- An optimistic, personal geography : Paul Stanhope, b. 1969 -- Compendium of characteristics that denote or identify the "Australiana" idiom -- Final questions -- Overview of the aesthetic periods of Australia's musical nationalism.
- Call Number
- JME 23-446
- ISBN
- 9781789761085
- 1789761085
- OCLC
- 1258219713
- Author
- Dalov, Beatrice, author.
- Title
- The sounds of aurora australis : a history of Australia's musical identity / Beatrice Dalov.
- Publisher
- Brighton ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-232) and index.
- Added Author
- Williams, Natalie, 1977- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-446