Antarctica : : music, sounds and cultural connections / / edited by Bernadette Hince, Rupert Summerson and Arnan Wiesel.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hince, Bernadette,; Summerson, Rupert,; Wiesel, Arnan, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: [Canberra, Australia] : : Australian National University Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Notes: "The Antarctica Music Festival and Conference at The Australian National University's School of Music on 29 June 2011 generated a great sense of excitement."; Includes index.

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 great potential for creative achievements in the world of music and sound. This book demonstrates the intellectual and creative engagement of artists, musicians, scientists and writers. Consciousness of sounds -- in particular, musical ones -- has not been at the forefront of our aims in polar endeavours, but listening to and appreciating them has been as important there as elsewhere.

Table of Contents

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'.