Helen English

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City (eBook, PDF)

Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia especially coal-mining regions of New South Wales used music as a resource for world-building. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers working in the fields of sociomusicology, colonial studies and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429666131
• Artikelnr.: 59805888

Autorenporträt

Helen J. English is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has a strong interest in music communities, past and present, and in capturing ways music is at work in the everyday and the out-of-the-ordinary day.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 (Introduction): Music Making at the Coalface
Chapter 2: The Sights and Sounds of the Coalopolis, 1860-1880
Chapter 3: Aspirations and Transposed Traditions
Chapter 4: Music's Affordances in the Settler Context: Brass Bands and the
Self, Body and the Social.
Case Study 1: Brass Bands as the Apotheosis of World-Building: The Miners'
Demonstration of 1874
Chapter 5: Choirs Local and Global: Community makers, Vehicles of
Respectability and Colonial Connectivity
Chapter 6: Singing, Eisteddfodau and Identity
Case Study 2: Nostalgia: A Transnational Concert at Lambton
Chapter 7: The Minstrel Mask: Blackface Miners at Work and Play
Chapter 8: Social Inclusion: What Township Benefit Concerts reveal about
Township Values
Postlude: Conclusions