My Island Home

Author : Neil Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987313928
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Island Home written by Neil Murray and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind 'My Island Home' is that it was written by a white man for a black man and the black man sang it like it was his own. That doesn't sound like much but in the context of Australian history it represents the crossing of a mighty gulf. Aboriginal people sing 'My Island Home' like it's theirs. White people sing it like it's theirs. People in Australia who have come from other countries, other cultures, sing 'My Island Home' like it's theirs. That's what makes it such a great song.

Author : John Singe
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702233050
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Island Home written by John Singe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Singe first arrived at Thursday Island in 1970. Peopled by many wild and wonderful characters, this tropical paradise proved to be no place for the faint-hearted. As a diver, John Singe survived shark attack and frequently faced the Strait's unpredictable moods when sailing the waters from Cape York to Papua New Guinea. Hunting and fishing expeditions also provided him with an unexpected education.As well as charting one man's Indiana Jones-like adventures, this entertaining book voyages across contemporary Islander cultures and lifestyles. Much more than a travel saga, My Island Home traces the rewarding journey of its author who continues to be drawn irresistibly to the gregarious people and unlimited horizons of Torres Strait.

Author : Penelope Ann Smith-Carter Dichiera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796004359
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Island Home written by Penelope Ann Smith-Carter Dichiera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about leaving England in 1965 and immigrating to Australia. It is a visual journey of my experiences and memories living in an environment that was adaptable but different and strange to me. It was so different from the world we live in now. The story also is accompanied by poetry and illustrations by the author.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Island Home written by James Norman Hall and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000100804
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands in History and Representation written by Rod Edmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing. Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers.

Author : Denis Collins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802301
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance written by Denis Collins and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry into early music, queer musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, music education and technology, Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance provides a lively forum for the articulation of varied perspectives on the role of music, its interpretation and function in contexts supported by those who practice or experience it. The formal and shorter discussion papers included in this scholarly collection were presented at the National Workshop of the Musicological Society of Australia, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in October 2003. The themes of aesthetics and experience are central to this publication and each paper engages in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance. The papers included in this publication bring together the research of a wide community of scholars (e.g., musicologists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and linguists) working in the field of performance studies and collectively reflect the musicological issues being debated in Australia today.

Author : Thérèse Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Lucia, My Island Home written by Thérèse Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell King
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781855675483
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Worlds, Global Lives written by Russell King and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu.

Author : Simon Broughton
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858286365
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific written by Simon Broughton and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030500799
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia written by Jon Stratton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter looks at the formation of the Australian state, the role that multiculturalism has played, and the impact of neoliberal ideas. The second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the 1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim experience. Subsequent chapters discuss the exclusionary experience of various groups identified as non-white through the lens of films, popular music and television programs.