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 environ...

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'.