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The Soundscapes of Australia - Music, Place and Spirituality (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,363
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The Soundscapes of Australia - Music, Place and Spirituality (Hardcover, New Ed): Fiona Richards

The Soundscapes of Australia - Music, Place and Spirituality (Hardcover, New Ed)

Fiona Richards

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Australia offers tremendous scope for understanding the relationship between music, spirituality and landscape. This major, generously-illustrated new volume examines, in fifteen chapters, some of the ways in which composers and performers have attempted to convey a sense of the Australian landscape through musical means. The book embraces the different approaches of ethnomusicology, gender studies, musical analysis, performance studies and cultural history. Ranging across the country, from remote parts of the Northern Territory to the bustling east coast cities, from Tasmanian wilderness to tropical Queensland, the book includes references to art and literature as well as music. Issues of national identity, belonging and aboriginalization are an integral part of the book, with indigenous responses to place examined alongside music from the western orchestral, chamber and choral repertories. The book provides valuable insight into a wide range of music inspired by Australia, from the Yanyuwa people to Jewish communities in Victoria; from Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros to the work of European expats living in Australia before the Second World War; from historic Ealing film scores to contemporary sound installations. The work of many significant composers is discussed in detail, among them Ross Edwards, Barry Conyngham, David Lumsdaine, Anne Boyd and Fritz Hart. Throughout the book there is a sense of the vibrancy and diversity of the music inspired by the sights and sounds of the Australian landscape.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2007
First published: 2007
Editors: Fiona Richards
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-4072-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 0-7546-4072-8
Barcode: 9780754640721

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