Book: The soundscapes of Australia : music, place and spirituality / edited by Fiona Richards. [2007] : Product : Australian Music Centre

Book

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

xiii, 327 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., music ; 24 cm.
Aldershot, England : Ashgate, c2007.
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Australian Works Analysed in this Book

	Work
	Port Essington (1977) by Peter Sculthorpe
	Ice man (1993) by Stuart Greenbaum
	Quiros (1982) by Peter Sculthorpe and Brian Bell

Product details

ISBN: 9780754640721

Contents note: 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 Dhalwangu 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.

Bibliography: p. [297]-316.

Bibliography: p. [317]-318.

Includes index.