Title: Music and world-building in the colonial city : Newcastle, NSW, and its townships, 1860-1880 /
Authors: English, Helen J.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Music Social aspects Australia Newcastle (N.S.W.) History; Coal miners Australia Newcastle (N.S.W.) Social life and customs; British Australia Newcastle (N.S.W.) History; British; Coal miners Social life and customs; Emigration and immigration; Manners and customs; Music Social aspects; Australia Emigration and immigration History; Newcastle (N.S.W.) Social life and customs; Australia; New South Wales Newcastle
Abstract: "Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coal-mining regions of New South Wales. It explores how music-making helped British migrants to create communities in unfamiliar country, often with little to no infrastructure. Its key themes are: people's relationships to music within specific contexts how music making intersects with class, gender and ethnic background identity through music. Situated within a wider discourse on music and identity, music and well-being and music and emotions, this is an authoritative study of historical communities and their relationship with music. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers working in the fields of sociomusicology, colonial studies and cultural studies"--
Contents: Music-Making at the Coalface of the Empire -- The Sights and Sounds of the Coalopolis -- Aspirations and Transposed Traditions -- Music's Affordances in the Settler Context : Brass Bands and the Self, Body and Social -- Miners' Demonstration of 1874 -- Choirs : Local and Global -- Singing, Eisteddfodau and Identity -- Nostalgia : A Transnational Concert at Lambton -- The Minstrel Mask : Blackface Miners at Work and Play -- Social Inclusion : What Township Benefit Concerts Reveal about Township Values -- Final Thoughts.