Music
Articles
- Folksong - A Protest
Australians have been criticized and cautioned by foreigners— mainly Americans—for their disregard of their formal literature It is time now for you to be criticized…
1 June 1966 - The Language of Music: Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach
All Garner's novels and stories present female experience as a discourse of the possible rather than a narrative of simple conflict although this possibility always…
1 October 1990 - ‘Composing the Self’: Metaphors of Creativity in Henry Handel Richardson’s Myself When Young
‘This essay interrogates Richardson’s representation of her choice of a literary over a musical career, arguing that this choice was a matter not only of…
1 October 2005 - Listening between the Lines: Introduction: Exploring Interdisciplinarity between Music and Literature
The current issue of Australian Literary Studies represents a significant departure for a journal that has characteristically worked within the boundaries of a single discipline…
1 June 2014 - R. Strauss, Opus 67, 1-3, Drei Lieder der Ophelia: Ophelia Set adrift in the Cross-Currents of Interdisciplinary Culture
'I want to argue that interdisciplinary approaches to analysing cultural texts allows us to challenge such orthodoxies and open up some surprising new perspectives on…
1 June 2014 - Adaptation Studies, Convention, Vocal Production and Embodied Meaning in Verdi’s Macbeth: Rehabilitating the Brindisi, or, Lady Macbeth Unsexes Herself
"In this article, I suggest that focussing on the interplay of convention and reception might be one way in which adaptation studies could contribute something…
1 June 2014 - Relinquishing Poetic Form as a Means of Musical Redemption in Gabriel Fauré’s La Chanson d’Éve
"I propose that van Lerberghe's free verse granted Fauré a greater degree of musical potency, better allowing him to portray the figure of Éve as…
1 June 2014 - Poetic Soundings: Aesthetic Correlation in the Work of T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky
discusses comparisons between T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky as 'exemplars of Modernism in their respective media'. 'The very persistence of these comparisons raises questions and…
1 June 2014 - Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind’ and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse
"This article considers Anne Sexton's short-lived, mesmerising ensemble as a model for the wider musical impetus in lyric confessional verse. It argues that Sexton used…
1 June 2014 - Waking up the Colours: Memory and Allegory in Iranian Hip Hop and Ambient Music
"This article examines three examples of twenty-first-century Iranian popular music and draws on the theories of Walter Benjamin to analyse their representations of memory and…
1 June 2014 - Intention and (In)determinacy: John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’ and the Ambiguity of Performance
On 2 December 1977, John Cage performed Part III of 'Empty Words' (1974-75) to an audience in Italy. Over the course of three hours, the…
1 June 2014 - Composing Rayuela: The Musical Element in Julio Corrazar’s Narrative
"I am interested in the possibility that the relationship to music in Cortazar's works can be analysed through the equally contemporaneous practices of experimental music…
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Contributors
- Bill Ashcroft
- G.J. Breyley
- Emma Childs
- Tyne Daile Sumner
- Lynley Edmeades
- John Greenway
- Christian Griffiths
- Christian Griffiths
- Dunya Lindsey
- Cameron McCormick
- John R. Severn
- Jessica Trevitt
- Adriana Verdie