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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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ANU, Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Music and Antarctica; 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 conscience1; Eating the audience; Musical adventures in Antarctica.
- Mentions of music in the Antarctic diaries of Cecil T Madigan1Body 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 AntarcticaMade and played in Antarctica: People's music in a far-flung place; 'A Vast Scale: Evocations of Antarctica'; Index.