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- 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 Bach1 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
Arnold Schonberg and Richard Strauss were both prominent European composers who enjoyed considerable success from the time of the early twentieth century until well after…
1 June 2014 - Adaptation Studies, Convention, Vocal Production and Embodied Meaning in Verdi’s Macbeth: Rehabilitating the Brindisi, or, Lady Macbeth Unsexes Herself
Recent work in adaptation studies, particularly in the wake of Linda Hutcheon's A Theory if Adaptation, has provoked a shift from a fidelity- ased critique…
1 June 2014 - Relinquishing Poetic Form as a Means of Musical Redemptionin Gabriel Faure’s La Chanson d’Eve
Over the course of his career, the composer Gabriel Faure (1845- 1924) witnessed a critical period of reform in regard to political, societal, and artistic…
1 June 2014 - Poetic Soundings: Aesthetic Correlation in the Work of T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky
T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky are often mentioned in tandem, not only for their equivalent standing in the arts, but for perceived similarities in both…
1 June 2014 - Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind’ and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse
In her 1970 essay 'Rock Poetry, Relevance, and Revelation', Helen English comments on what she calls the 'painted pony' of the 'educational merry-go-round'. 'Too much…
1 June 2014 - Waking up the Colours: Memory and Allegory in Iranian Hip Hop and Ambient Music
In Iran, poetry and music have been closely linked for centuries, as the earliest known forms of music produced there were melodic recitations of verse…
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
The work of the novelist and the composer have great similarities. At the heart of their practice, each responds to an initial idea, or 'inspiration'…
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- 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