Antarctica

Music, Sounds and Cultural Connections

Bernadette Hince, Rupert Summerson, Arnan Wiesel, Bernadette Hince, Rupert Summerson, Arnan Wiesel

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781925022292
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

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 environment and unique soundscapes, offers g

Table of contents

• Antarctica
• Contents
• 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 conscience
• Eating the audience
• Musical adventures in Antarctica
• Mentions of music in the Antarctic diaries of Cecil T Madigan
• Body 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 Antarctica
• Made and played in Antarctica: People’s music in a far-flung place
• ‘A Vast Scale: Evocations of Antarctica’
• Index