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'The Muses' Magazine aspires at being the accredited official organ of the intellectual life of Queensland. It will encourage native talent, cultivate an Australian sentiment, a love for and devotion to our beautiful and bounteous country. [...] A glance on the cover of this Magazine will disclose the fact that among all the Australian cities Brisbane has the largest number of societies devoted to the study of foreign languages and literatures. Through these societies, young Australians will be able to keep in touch with the intellectual life of other countries as well as of their own.' [From the editors introduction to the first issue, November 1927, p. 1]
In I Fiddled the Years Away, Luis Amadeo Pares claims that The Muses' Magazine was financed from the profits of the 'Thousand Violins' performance that he organised in Brisbane in August 1926 (p.95).Notes
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This publication interests itself in the following Societies ~ The Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society, The Queensland Authors' and Artists' Association, The Alliance Francaise de Brisbane, The Goethe Bund, The Societa Dante, The Centro Espanol de Queensland, The Hellenic Club, The House of Israel, The Hall of the Muses Conservatorium of Music [Front Cover]
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Art - Literature - Music - Drama - Horticulture - Astronomy [Front Cover]
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Polyhymnia - Thalia - Urania - Clio - Erato - Calliope - Euterpe - Terpsichore - Melpomene [Front Cover]
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Each issue carries columns devoted to the various cultural organisations of Brisbane, for example, 'Hojas Españolas/Spanish Pages'; 'Feuillets Française/French Pages'; 'Deutsche Blätter/German Pages'; 'Pagine Italiane/Italian Pages'; 'Hellenic Pages'; and 'Leaves from the House of Isreal'.
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The September 1928 issue introduced 'The Pages of Calliope and Erato', publishing Australian poetry, edited by R.A. Broinowski.
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Pacifying Brisbane : The Muses' Magazine and the 1920s
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 39-51) 'Patrick Buckridge reveals the extraordinary number of literary and cultural societies that flourished in Brisbane in the 1920s, contributing to what he describes as 'the active creation of a liberal polity' during the otherwise turbulent interwar period. Despite this apparently local focus, many, indeed most, of these societies, as their names indicate, were affiliated with wider forms of imagined community : L'Alliance Francaise, the Brisbane Shakespeare Society, Der Brisbane Goeth Bund.' (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xiii)
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Islands of Multilingual Literature : Community Magazines and Australia's Many Languages
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 3 2012; (p. 129-142)As a researcher for AustLit, I have tried to identify and locate points of entry through which even a monolingual researcher might access and build awareness of Australia’s multilingual literatures. Community language newspapers, which have existed in Australian since the nineteenth century, and which continue with substantial circulations in the twenty-first century, are excellent resources if one is fluent in the respective language. Bilingual or multilingual magazines or newspapers are not as common, but can provide an English reading researcher with documentation of community literary activities that would otherwise remain inaccessible. These magazines are like islands – multilingual islands in the midst of the dominant monolingual literary culture. In the Australian literary context it may be appropriate to think of the production of literature in other languages as islands of literary activity where multiple languages are maintained amidst the surrounding English writing. In this essay I’ll discuss a number of literary journals that provide access to Australia’s multilingual literary activities. Two of these are indeed multilingual, carrying articles and creative writing in a number of languages. The third is bilingual, publishing content in English and Vietnamese only, but will be included it here as an indication of the breadth and significance of writing in Australia in languages other than English, writing that is diasporic and transnational as well as multilingual. (Author's abstract)
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Harmonising the City : Music, Multiculturalism and The Muses' Magazine in Brisbane
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , January vol. 18 no. 1 2011; (p. 26-41) 'Brisbane in the 1920s certainly had its tense moments, but what struck me most forcibly in browsing the local newspapers from the period was how successfully political and social conflicts were absorbed into the peaceful, civil and law-abiding fabric of Brisbane life. World-altering events like the Russian Revolution, the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, the Irish Troubles and the rise of Mussolini were reported and discussed in the press and elsewhere, but matters seldom went further than that despite the real potential — given the presence of significant Russian, German, Irish and Italian minorities in the city's population — for ‘imported’ tensions. Even the momentous political developments that occurred in Brisbane in the early 1920s, when the state government's efforts to secure foreign loans were sabotaged by an opposition-funded delegation to London, and the Premier, EG (‘Red Ted’) Theodore, forced the parliamentary upper house to terminate its own existence, failed to polarise or fracture the community to any significant degree.' (Publication summary) -
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I Fiddled the Years Away
Brisbane
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s.n.
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1946
Z1680970
1946
single work
autobiography
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I Fiddled the Years Away
Brisbane
:
s.n.
,
1946
Z1680970
1946
single work
autobiography
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Pacifying Brisbane : The Muses' Magazine and the 1920s
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 39-51) 'Patrick Buckridge reveals the extraordinary number of literary and cultural societies that flourished in Brisbane in the 1920s, contributing to what he describes as 'the active creation of a liberal polity' during the otherwise turbulent interwar period. Despite this apparently local focus, many, indeed most, of these societies, as their names indicate, were affiliated with wider forms of imagined community : L'Alliance Francaise, the Brisbane Shakespeare Society, Der Brisbane Goeth Bund.' (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xiii)
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Islands of Multilingual Literature : Community Magazines and Australia's Many Languages
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 3 2012; (p. 129-142)As a researcher for AustLit, I have tried to identify and locate points of entry through which even a monolingual researcher might access and build awareness of Australia’s multilingual literatures. Community language newspapers, which have existed in Australian since the nineteenth century, and which continue with substantial circulations in the twenty-first century, are excellent resources if one is fluent in the respective language. Bilingual or multilingual magazines or newspapers are not as common, but can provide an English reading researcher with documentation of community literary activities that would otherwise remain inaccessible. These magazines are like islands – multilingual islands in the midst of the dominant monolingual literary culture. In the Australian literary context it may be appropriate to think of the production of literature in other languages as islands of literary activity where multiple languages are maintained amidst the surrounding English writing. In this essay I’ll discuss a number of literary journals that provide access to Australia’s multilingual literary activities. Two of these are indeed multilingual, carrying articles and creative writing in a number of languages. The third is bilingual, publishing content in English and Vietnamese only, but will be included it here as an indication of the breadth and significance of writing in Australia in languages other than English, writing that is diasporic and transnational as well as multilingual. (Author's abstract)
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Harmonising the City : Music, Multiculturalism and The Muses' Magazine in Brisbane
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , January vol. 18 no. 1 2011; (p. 26-41) 'Brisbane in the 1920s certainly had its tense moments, but what struck me most forcibly in browsing the local newspapers from the period was how successfully political and social conflicts were absorbed into the peaceful, civil and law-abiding fabric of Brisbane life. World-altering events like the Russian Revolution, the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, the Irish Troubles and the rise of Mussolini were reported and discussed in the press and elsewhere, but matters seldom went further than that despite the real potential — given the presence of significant Russian, German, Irish and Italian minorities in the city's population — for ‘imported’ tensions. Even the momentous political developments that occurred in Brisbane in the early 1920s, when the state government's efforts to secure foreign loans were sabotaged by an opposition-funded delegation to London, and the Premier, EG (‘Red Ted’) Theodore, forced the parliamentary upper house to terminate its own existence, failed to polarise or fracture the community to any significant degree.' (Publication summary)
