| Description |
187 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. A 'Roaring Decade': listening to the Australian gold-fields / Diane Collins -- 2. A Complex Kind of Training: Cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe / James Donald -- 3. Speech, Children and the Federation Movement / Alan Atkinson -- 4. Sounds of History: Oratory and the fantasy of male power / Marilyn Lake -- 5. Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution and the Art of Recitation / Peter Kirkpatrick -- 6. World English? How an Australian Invented 'Good American Speech' / Desley Deacon -- 7. 'The Australian Has a Lazy Way of Talking': Australian character and accent, 1920s - 1940s / Joy Damousi -- 8. Towards a History of the Australian Accent / Bruce Moore -- 9. Voice, Power and Modernity / Bruce Johnson -- 10. Modernity, Intimacy and Early Australian Commercial Radio / Bridget Griffen-Foley -- 11. Talking Salvation for the Silent Majority: Projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema / 19291933 / Brian Yecies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Sounds.
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Auditory perception -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Oral communication -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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| Author |
Deacon, Desley.
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Damousi, Joy.
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| ISBN |
9781921313479 (paperback) |
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