Music and World-Building in the Colonial City

Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-07764-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

English, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.