Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860–1880
- Author: English, Helen
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Contents
- 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