Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Spirit of place, spiritual journeys, Fiona Richards; Landscape, spirit and music: an Australian story, Anne Boyd; Colin Bright and the psyche of place, Christine Logan; Women, spirituality, landscape: the music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson, Sally Macarthur; Singing the land, singing the family: song, place and spirituality amongst the Yanyuwa, Elizabeth Mackinlay and John Bradley; Words and music: Clive Douglas and the Jindyworobak Manifesto, David Symons; A case of discontiguity: musical and cultural irony in the situation of the Lubavitch Community of Shepparton, Victoria, Kay Dreyfus and Bronia Kornhauser; Visions of the great south land in Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros, Deborah Hayes; Sing a country of the mind: the articulation of place in Dhalwangu song, Peter Toner; European sounds, Australian echoes: the music of Marshall-Hall, Hill and Hart, Peter Tregea; An expatriate Englishman: Fritz Hart in Australia, Anne-Marie Forbes; Journeys across Australia: Ealing film scores of the 1940s and '50s, Fiona Richards; 'From Port Essington to the Himalayas': music, place and spirituality in two contemporary Australian compositions, Linda Kouvaras; To be alone: the theme of isolation in the music of Barry Conyngham, Gordon Kerry; Sonic inscriptions: sound installation and acoustic art in Australia, Ros Bandt; Spirit, place and power in Arnhem land traditional and Christian music, Fiona Magowan; Discography and website references; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Fiona Richards is Head of the Music Department at The Open University, UK. Fiona Richards, Anne Boyd, Christine Logan, Sally Macarthur, Elizabeth Mackinlay, John Bradley, David Symons, Kay Dreyfus, Bronia Kornhauser, Deborah Hayes, Peter Toner, Peter Tregea, Anne-Marie Forbes, Linda Kouvaras, Gordon Kerry, Ros Bandt, Fiona Magowan.

Reviews

’This ultimately is a volume about place, and the musical sensibilities used by some groups to construct, re-imagine, celebrate, honour and remember place. This is an important focus. Interpreted more broadly, it allows us to begin to explore our relationship to the transcendent, to the mystic, to history, to our gender, and to our own personal inclinations. This is an important enterprise and in that this book assists it, it merits attention.’ Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 'Of particular note is the contribution that the book makes to discussion about cross-cultural appropriation, particularly representations of Australian Aboriginal materials by Australian composers of European descent (a discussion that has been lacking until recent times). ...[T]he juxtaposition of contrastive disciplinary and ideological viewpoints and subject matter serves to engage the reader in a better appreciation of the differences between ways of relating to place through music and spirituality in different cultural, historical, and social contexts.' The World of Music