Migrant Musicians and Their Impact on the Emerging Music Making of the Hunter Valley, 1840-1880

Title: Migrant Musicians and Their Impact on the Emerging Music Making of the Hunter Valley, 1840-1880
Creator: English, Helen
Relation: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/reader.action?docID=5572233&ppg=7
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: This chapter investigates the early development of colonial music making in the Hunter Valley NSW, with a focus on the two leading centres: Newcastle and Maitland. In particular, it looks at the impact of migrant musicians within the context of culture and community building. The creation and dissemination of cultured and respectable communities were key to gaining respect both locally and in Britain. Musical performance and composition were pursued as a means to building cultured identities, as Graeme Skinner has argued.1 Such activities could demonstrate a comparable effort and production of cultured products and pursuits to those “back home.” In the nineteenth century music was also valued as a rational recreation—an alternative to a drinking culture—and therefore an avenue to respectability.
Subject: early development; colonial music; migrant musicians; cultured identities
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447981
Identifier: uon:43278
Identifier: ISBN:9781527505773
Language: eng