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'Australian and international modernity from the late 19th to the mid-20th century inspires research in many fields of cultural endeavour: architecture, fine arts, design, cinema, theatre, and music; in urban studies, literary history and Aboriginal studies. Impact of the Modern brings together examples of this new interdisciplinary work on modern Australian culture by 21 leading scholars. Their writings reveal an original account of 'modernising' Australia as dynamic and creative in many art forms, and interactively linked with international processes and ideas.
'The essays in Impact of the Modern were presented as papers at the conference, 'Australian Vernacular Modernities', convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in 2006. Plenary papers by Jill Julius Matthews and Angela Woollacott signal the book's focus on the erotic and gendered spaces, and on popular aspects of modernity. They provide the central focus of the material, through such vital and dynamic categories as the 'modern', the 'erotic' and the 'primitive'. As essential components of the historical processes of innovation and modernisation, these central questions of gender and public sociality are taken up in diverse ways in the other chapters, forming a varied and exciting study of a range of creative Australian engagements with modern international life and popular culture.' (Publication summary)
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Contents
- Australian Vernacular Modernities : People, Sites and Practices, single work criticism (p. xiii-xxiv)
- Modernity Denied : The Case of Harold Blair's 1956 EP, Australian Aboriginal Songs, single work criticism (p. 52-61)
- Jedda, Negritude and the Modernist Impulse in Australian Film, single work criticism (p. 62-72)
- Written to Tickle the Ears of the Groundlings in Garden Cities : The Aesthetic of Modernity: Vance and Nettie Palmer and the New Age, single work criticism (p. 91-108)
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The Davenport Brothers Down Under : Theatre, Belief and Modernity in 1870s Australia,
single work
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Bellanta argues that the tours by spiritualist mediums Ira and William Davenport and stage magician Harry Keller (a.k.a. Kellar) "make it clear that theatre was a key forum in which Australians debated questions of belief" (p.171).
- Cosmopolitans at Home : Judith Anderson and the American Aspirations of J.C. Williamson Stock Company Members, 1897-1918, single work criticism (p. 202-222)
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Untitled
2012
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review
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 1 no. 2 2012; (p. 275-276)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 41 no. 3 2010; (p. 409-410)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 56 2010; (p. 233-236)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Australian Vernacular Modernities : People, Sites and Practices
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008; (p. xiii-xxiv)
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 56 2010; (p. 233-236)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 41 no. 3 2010; (p. 409-410)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 1 no. 2 2012; (p. 275-276)
— Review of Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008 anthology criticism -
Australian Vernacular Modernities : People, Sites and Practices
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s 2008; (p. xiii-xxiv)