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12 - New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual

from Part III - Diversities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Louise Devenish  and
Talisha Goh
Edited by
Amanda Harris  and
Clint Bracknell
Amanda Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Clint Bracknell
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Summary

Art music in Australia has always reflected the dominant social and cultural values of its time. As with all forms of art, the context of music making significantly influences the evolution of musical practice, from concept and narrative through to techniques and performance. In the twenty-first century, the zeitgeist of ‘our time and place’ is dominated by two global issues: the climate crisis and social justice. Both issues are strongly influencing the evolution of art music in Australia, shaping new directions in creative practice, informing conceptual frameworks, and guiding curatorial and collaborative approaches to programming and mentorship. This chapter will focus on how these issues are influencing curatorial and creative practices in Australian art music today, using works, projects and programs from the 2010s and early 2020s as examples.

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Art musicAustralian musicclimate crisisgendersocial justicecuratorialconceptualcreativepost-instrumental practice
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 188 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Barclay, L., ‘Sonic Ecologies: Exploring the Agency of Soundscapes in Ecological Crisis’, Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, 12(1) (2013), 29–32.Google Scholar
Bracknell, C. and Barwick, L., ‘The Fringe of the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions’, Musicology Australia, 42(2) (2020), 70–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Devenish, L., Sun, C., Hope, C., et al., ‘Teaching Tertiary Music in the #MeToo Era’, Tempo, 74(292) (2020), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298219001153.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gillard, J., ‘Misogyny Speech’ (2012), available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNuPcf8L00, accessed 9 May 2022.Google Scholar
Klinenberg, E., Araos, M. and Koslov, L., ‘Sociology and the Climate Crisis’, Annual Review of Sociology, 46(1) (2020), 649–69, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054750.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levy, B. S. and Patz, J. A., ‘Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice’, Annals of Global Health, 81(3) (2015), 310–22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.08.008.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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