Dunedin soundings
Subtitle: place and performance
By: edited by Dan Bendrups and Graeme Downes
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dunedin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781877578229
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Popular music
Description: "The 'Dunedin Sound' of the 1980s is a phenomenon known throughout thye world. But how does Dunedin music-making sound in the 21st century? In this book musicians, composers and scholar/practitioners discuss genres as diverse as brass band, opera, classical, Indonesian gamelan, jazz and rock, the intricacies of the composition and lyric-writing processes, digital remixing, and scoring for film and TV. Together, they reveal the ways in which those supposedly separate fields have the potential to inform and stimulate each other. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Contains bibliographical references (p. 161-171).
Table of contents: title: Dunedin sounds / Dan Bendrups; title: Practice and performance as research in the arts / Suzanne Little; title: The creative artist as research practitioner / John Drummond; title: Songwriting process in the Verlaines' album Corporate Moronic / Graeme Downes; title: Southern gold bars : the gamelan community in Dunedin / Shelley D. Brunt and Henry Johnson; title: Subject2Change : musical reassemblage in the jazz diaspora / Dan Bendrups and Robert G.H. Burns; title: Remix culture and the new folk process / John Egenes; title: Reflections from a reformed exile / Trevor Coleman; title: A common thematic : seven songs by Anthony Ritchie / Anthony Ritchie; title: The new brass band : stylistic pluralism and local vernacular / Peter Adams; title: From history to opera : the story of William Larnach / John Drummond; title: Songs of old Dunedin : a musical entrepreneurial journey / Judy Bellingham; title: Music, community, and the creation of Dunedinmusic.com / Scott Muir.