1st Edition

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers

By David Symons Copyright 2021
184 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers examines the music of a historically and artistically significant group of Australian composers active during the later post-colonial period (1930s–c. 1960). These composers sought to establish a uniquely Australian identity through the evocation of the country’s landscape and environment, including notably the use of Aboriginal elements or imagery in their... Read more

Chapter 1: The Jindyworobak composer: fact or fiction?

Chapter 2: Alfred and Mirrie Hill

Chapter 3: Clive Douglas

Chapter 4: John Antill

Chapter 5: James Penberthy

Interlude: post-colonial echoes and pre-echoes of Jindyworobakism

Chapter 6: Peter Sculthorpe and the afterlife of Jindyworobakism

Chapter 7: Jindyworobakism in global perspective

Biography

David Symons is Honorary Senior Research Fellow and part-time Senior Lecturer at the Conservatorium of Music, The University of Western Australia, Australia.

'[David] Symons offers fresh perspectives about the group of composers who, between 1930 and 1960, sought an Australian musical identity with reference to local landscape and First Nations  culture as they understood it. ... The Jindyworobak movement in music has been one of Symons's regular concerns since the 1990s and his findings are brought together definitively in Australia's Jindyworobak Composers.'

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