| Description |
xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 / Elizabeth Mackinlay and John Bradley -- 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 Tregea -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Music -- Australia -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music and geography.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| Author |
Richards, Fiona.
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| LC no. |
2005033202 |
| ISBN |
0754640728 alkaline paper |
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9780754640721 cased |
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