Music and World-Building in the Colonial City

Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-49564-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

Reihe: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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.

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.