The soundscapes of Australia
Subtitle: music, place and spirituality
By: edited by Fiona Richards.
Contributors: Richards, Fiona.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Music -- Australia -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Music and geography.; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : spirit of place, spiritual journeys / Fiona Richards; value: Landscape, spirit and music : an Australian Story / Anne Boyd; value: Colin Bright and the psyche of place / Christine Logan; value: Women, spirituality, landscape : the music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson / Sally Macarthur; value: Singing the land, singing the family : song, place and spirituality amongst the Yanyuwa / Elizabeth Mackinlay and John Bradley; value: Words and music : Clive Douglas and the Jindyworobak Manifesto / David Symons; value: A case of discontiguity : musical and cultural irony in the situation of the Lubavitch community of Shepparton, Victoria / Kay Dreyfus and Bronia Kornhauser; value: Visions of the great south land in Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros / Deborah Hayes; value: Sing a country of the mind : the articulation of place in Dhalwangu song / Peter Toner; value: European sounds, Australian echoes : the music of Marshall-Hall, Hill and Hart / Peter Tregea; value: An expatriate Englishman : Fritz Hart in Australia / Anne-Marie Forbes; value: Journeys across Australia : Ealing film scores of the 1940s and '50s /  Fiona Richards; value: "From Port Essington to the Himalayas" : music, place and spirituality in two contemporary Australian compositions / Linda Kouvaras; value: To be alone : the theme of isolation in the music of Barry Conyngham / Gordon Kerry; value: Sonic inscriptions : sound installation and acoustic art in Australia / Ros Bandt; value: Spirit, place and power in Arnhem land traditional and Christian music / Fiona Magowan.