ISBN |
9780367077648 |
0367077647 |
Author |
English, Helen J. (author) |
Title |
Music and world-building in the colonial city : Newcastle, NSW, and its townships, 1860-1880 / Helen J. English. |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
©2021. |
Description |
x, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Music in nineteenth-century Britain |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Music-Making at the Coalface of the Empire -- The Sights and Sounds of the Coalopolis -- Aspirations and Transposed Traditions -- Music's Affordances in the Settler Context : Brass Bands and the Self, Body and Social -- Miners' Demonstration of 1874 -- Choirs : Local and Global -- Singing, Eisteddfodau and Identity -- Nostalgia : A Transnational Concert at Lambton -- The Minstrel Mask : Blackface Miners at Work and Play -- Social Inclusion : What Township Benefit Concerts Reveal about Township Values -- Final Thoughts. |
Summary |
"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"-- |
Subjects |
Music -- Social aspects -- Australia |
Music -- Social aspects -- Australia -- New South Wales |
Music -- Social aspects -- New South Wales -- Newcastle |
Coal miners -- New South Wales |
Coal miners -- Australia |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century |
Newcastle (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs |
Newcastle (N.S.W.) -- History |
Series |
Music in nineteenth-century Britain |
Call number |
2022.175 |