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Title Belonging in the rainbow region : cultural perspectives on the NSW North Coast / Helen Wilson (Ed)
Published Lismore, N.S.W. : Southern Cross University Press, [2003]
©2003

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 MELB  994.43 Wil/Bit  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents My belongin' place / Ruby Langford Ginibi -- "From obscurity into the fierce light of amazing popularity": internal migration on the Far North Coast / Jo Kijas -- Mapping the rainbow region: fields of belonging and sites of confluence / Baden Offord -- Creating communities at the end of the Rainbow / Graham Irvine -- A cannabis economy / Carol de Launey -- The mediated forest: who speaks for the trees? / Russell Kelly -- "Om Gaia dudes": the North East Forest Alliance's old growth forest campaign / Aidan Ricketts -- Saving the earth from tropical fruits / Baden Offord -- Metaphoric landscapes: writing the rainbow region / Janie Conway Herron -- Dropping in, not dropping out: the evolution of the alternative media in the rainbow region 1970-2002 / Fiona Martin & Rhonda Ellis -- Emerging screen industries in the Northern Rivers region: a documentary film-maker's perspective / Cathy Henkel -- Digital rainbows: inventing the Internet in the Northern Rivers / Gerard Goggin -- From blockades to blue moon: musical cultures of Nimbin -- Rainbow sounds: musical cultures of the far North Coast / Chris Gibson -- Festivals and tourists in the rainbow region
Summary The authors explore what it means to belong through various contexts: music and other creative arts, environmental protests, alternative housing, shifting demographics, the drug culture, tourism, gay and lesbian politics, the Indigenous community, and different forms of media communication and how this has affected the region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Performing arts -- Australia -- North Coast (N.S.W.)
Counterculture -- New South Wales, Northern
SUBJECT North Coast (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008008042 -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029
North Coast (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008008042
New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- North Coast -- Civilization
North Coast (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008008042 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Author Wilson, Helen.
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