Music and World-Building in the Colonial City : Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860–1880 (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 (Introduction): Music Making at the Coalface Chapter 2: The Sights and Sounds of the Coalopolis, 1860-1880 Chapter 3: Aspirations and Transposed Traditions Chapter 4: Music’s Affordances in the Settler Context: Brass Bands and the Self, Body and the Social. Case Study 1: Brass Bands as the Apotheosis of World-Building: The Miners’ Demonstration of 1874 Chapter 5: Choirs Local and Global: Community makers, Vehicles of Respectability and Colonial Connectivity Chapter 6: Singing, Eisteddfodau and Identity Case Study 2: Nostalgia: A Transnational Concert at Lambton Chapter 7: The Minstrel Mask: Blackface Miners at Work and Play Chapter 8: Social Inclusion: What Township Benefit Concerts reveal about Township Values Postlude: Conclusions