Name: Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia
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Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

$49.99

ISBN: 9780958121316
Author: John Whiteoak, Aline Scott-Maxwell
Publication Date: 1/7/2003
Edition: Standard
Publisher: Currency House
Extent: 736pp.
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This publication is unique in its comprehensiveness. It covers the history of concert music, opera, ballet, music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity, Aboriginal music, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance. It embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific. There’s sound art, computer music, electroacoustics, belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos and much more. It has contributions from over 200 academics, practitioners and private researchers from all parts of Australia and beyond.