Antarctica music, sounds and cultural connections
This is the first book whose subject is the music, sounds and silences of Antarctica. From 2011 until 2014, Australia marked its long-standing connection with Antarctica by celebrating the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The icy continent, with its extremes of climate and environ...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Canberra, Australia] :
Australian National University Press
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009436833406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Listening to Antarctica
- Mawson's musings and Morse code: Antarctic silence at the end of the 'Heroic Era', and how it was lost
- Thulia: a Tale of the Antarctic (1843): The earliest Antarctic poem and its musical setting
- Nankyoku no kyoku: The cultural life of the Shirase Antarctic Expedition 1910-12
- The first published music from Antarctica? Captain Doorly's piano and its roots in older traditions of polar exploration and an imperial guilty conscience
- Eating the audience
- Musical adventures in Antarctica
- Mentions of music in the Antarctic diaries of Cecil T Madigan
- Body of ice: The movement of Antarctic ice through dance
- The poetry of Antarctic sound and the sound of Antarctic poetry
- Playing Antarctica: Making music with natural objects and sounds from the Antarctic Peninsula
- And I may be some time
- The nature of sound and the sound of Nature
- Kiwis on ice: Defining the ways in which the New Zealand identity is reflected in the Antarctic-inspired works of four New Zealand composers
- Antarctica: 'Surround Sound'
- Frozen voices: Women, silence and Antarctica
- Frames of silence: Some descriptions of the sounds of Antarctica
- Made and played in Antarctica: People's music in a far-flung place
- 'A Vast Scale: Evocations of Antarctica'.
