Journal of Australian Studies articles from January 2007

Journal of Australian Studies archives from January 2007

Introduction.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... For more than 200 years, Australian identity has been continuously and creatively mutating. Characterised by Hudson and Bolton (1) as a 'fabulous beast' and described by White (2) as 'entirely mythical', it is--like other mythical...

'Anyhow ... where d'yer get it, mate?' Ockerdom in adland Australia.
January 1, 2007... Described as a 'shining aberration', the reformist agenda of Edward Gough Whitlam's brief prime ministership (1972-1975) profoundly affected Australia's cultural, social, and--ultimately--political landscape. (1) These reforms were indicative...

Agents of 'Americanisation': individual entrepreneurship and the genesis of consumer industries.
January 1, 2007... Since even before European settlement, the development of Australia has taken place in the shadow of the United States. Already in the colonial era, before either country had formed much notion of a national culture, the US (or usually, the...

The establishment of Birch Carroll and Coyle as a regional Queensland consortium 1909-1923.
January 1, 2007... In 1923 a newly formed Birch Carroll and Coyle consortium embarked upon unprecedented plans to construct picture palaces throughout regional Queensland. Its aim was to provide theatre-goers with pleasant and comfortable venues for both live...

'Well it is for me that I have books': books in the life of Matthew Flinders.
January 1, 2007... Matthew Flinders would not normally be thought of as a bookish man but reading his private journal one might think again. Books were important to him not only in his work--he was, as an explorer, continuing the work of his predecessors, most of...

'Mankind's old dichotomy': Gwen Harwood's romantic ironist.(Professor)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... This article forms part of a larger project designed to rekindle interest in the place that Romantic philosophy and aesthetics take in contemporary Australian literature. Poet Gwen Harwood's 'Professor' sequences engage strongly with German...

Remembering inheritance: David Malouf and the literary cultivation of nation.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... A few months on from the Tampa affair, just before the November 2001 Federal election, the Sydney Morning Herald published David Malouf's acerbic essay on language and style under Australia's present Coalition government. At one point, Malouf...

From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: foreign-language broadcasting on Australian commercial radio, part II.(Australian Broadcasting Control Board)
January 1, 2007... In 1959, following agonised deliberations extending over a decade, the Australian Broadcasting Control Board (ABCB) determined that foreign-language broadcasts should be restricted to 2.5 per cent of a station's weekly hours of transmission....

Bodysurfers and Australian beach culture.
January 1, 2007... Recently, while enjoying the early morning surf at Bondi, I found myself confronted by a flashback to another era. Looking up as I swam through a long break, there she was, gracefully arrowing down the front of the wave, head up, arms extended...

On the realism of Aboriginal art.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... Realism and Aboriginal art are both terms that have been subject to much contestation. In the field of painting they each describe a bewildering array of practices. To think about the realism of Aboriginal art, then, will not be a way of...

The rush to record: transmitting the sound of Aboriginal culture.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... Auditory experience has, in recent years, become something of a preoccupation for cultural historians. Quite apart from the need to address the imbalances of a visually fixated culture, the idea of the 'soundscape' resonates with a number of...

Turning Victoria into cultural capital: Victorian arts policy 1992-1999.
January 1, 2007... The Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, who led the Victorian Government for most of the 1990s, was well known for his generosity to the arts, and for his apparent success in fostering them. In the seven years that Kennett was Premier, the...

Creative artists or cultural practitioners? Holistic practice in Australia's cultural industries.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... Rapid and continual change has an inevitable impact upon artists and arts organisations. Achieving a sustainable career most often requires artists to pursue a diversity of roles within and outside of their discipline, and it is within the...

Producing an Australian popular music: from Stephen Foster to Jack O'Hagan.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... I need to start by defining what I mean by 'popular music'. Iain Chambers argues that in popular culture there is a 'mutual involvement of industry and culture, of commercial production and popular taste (1)' and that this is typically the...

'An Australian Stratford?' Shakespeare and the festival.(City overview)
January 1, 2007... Delegates at the opening ceremony of the eighth World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia, on 16 July 2006, saw some quaint footage from the 1955 Swan Hill National Shakespeare Festival. The film provided a silent glimpse of a period in...