Journal issue #2
Critical Times: Australian New Music and the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s
Edited by Michael Hooper — 28.02.08
This issue of the resonate journal re-approaches some of the music composed by Australians in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Although these years are often acknowledged as important for establishing contemporary understandings of Australian new music, they are under-represented in writings about more recent Australian music of this kind. What scholarship exists tends towards the biographical.
There are also startlingly few commercial recordings of new music from this era. Indeed, if there is one question that prompted the theme of this issue of resonate, then it is this: how is it that one can find endless references to Nigel Butterley’s In the Head the Fire as ‘the composition that won the 1966 Italia Prize ahead of Luciano Berio’s Laborintus II’, and yet listening to the piece requires a record player and a long-out-of-print LP...?
In this Issue
- Critical Times: Australian New Music and the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s
- Editorial, resonate journal issue two, by Michael Hooper
- Australian Music as a Catalyst for Change
- by Nicholas Vines
- Following the Least-Trodden Paths
- by James Humberstone
- Connecting with the Past: Thoughts on Earlier Compositional Journeys
- Interview with Natalie Williams, by Michael Hooper
- Lumsdaine, Durham and the 1970s
- Interview with Peter Wiegold, by Michael Hooper
- Nigel Butterley and the Problem that Wasn’t
- by Elliott Gyger
- I Would Love To Know How It All Goes Together
- by Michael Hooper
- Narrating the Early Music of Ross Edwards
- by Andrew Robbie
- Don Banks: A Composer Between Australia and Europe
- by Stefanie Rauch
- Why Play the Classics?
- Interview with Mark Knoop, by Michael Hooper
- A Forgotten History
- Interview with Clinton Green, by Melissa Davey
- The Missing Link
- Interview with Jim Denley, by Danielle Carey
- Being Unique
- Interview with Tony Gould, by Danielle Carey