by Judith Crispin

This study explores an elite esoteric tradition of music composition which grew out of Ferruccio Busoni's concept of Junge Klassizitat, or Young Classicality, and is manifested and examined in the two major operas it has generated: Busoni's "Doktor Faust" and Larry Sitsky's "The Golem". This study should appeal to scholars interested in musicology. It explores an elite esoteric tradition of music composition, transmitted to succeeding generations by practicing musicians with an avid interest in the occult.  This work will appeal to scholars of music history, pedagogy, and composition, as well as scholars of Australian music, Busoni, Sitsky and Western esotericism.

by Simone Dennis

This book is concerned with the social processes of being and becoming emotional and of making music, and the ways in which these processes are intertwined in the context of an Australian police department that wields subtle forms of power by emotional and musical means. The book is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a metropolitan police (concert) band. Of primary analytic concern is the embodied and social basis of emotion, and its capacity to facilitate connections between persons in and through musical means.

The Battle of Milne Bay, 1942

 written and directed by Leonie Jones

This documentary recounts the Battle of Milne Bay through interviews with veterans of the conflict. It is available for purchase from the Milne Bay Museum in Toowoomba.

edited by

Christopher Clarkson and Lara Lamb

This monograph takes a new look at various aspects of stone artefact analysis that reveal important and exciting new information about the past, and in particular Australian perspectives on lithics. The ten papers making up this volume tackle a number of issues that have long been at the heart of archaeology’s problematic relationship with stone artefacts, including our understanding of the dynamic nature of past stoneworking practices, the utility of traditional classificatory schemes, and ways to unlock the vast amount of information about the strategic role of lithic technology that resides in stone artefact assemblages. The dominant theme of this monograph is the pursuit of new ways of characterising the effects of manufacturing and subsistence behaviour on stone artefact assemblages.
 

by Amanda Laugesen

What does it mean to 'come a gutser'? When did 'Aussie', 'furphy' and 'possie' first come into Australian English?

Rather than present a collection of military slang or jargon, this dictionary draws together the diverse words produced and used by ordinary Australians at war, with evidence
of contemporary usage. The meaning and origins of each word are examined, and detailed quotations from contemporary sources are provided. The language of Australians at war reveals a great deal about their experiences and understandings of war, and is also a
fascinating insight into Australian culture and values.

 by Jill Kinnear

fabric:   a cloth made by weaving; framework, structure; fabric of society

by Christopher Lee

City Bushman traces the rise and fall of Henry Lawson's name and reputation from his earliest reception in the 1890s through to his State funeral, his memorialisation in Sydney's Domain, and his celebration as a hot tourist property in rural New South Wales. In the process it identifies a set of pervasive tensions between the popular and the cultured, the amateur and the professional, and the local and metropolitan. While Australians call upon Henry Lawson in the name of a united nation, those calls have always been troubled by social, cultural and political disagreements amongst those who claimed to know him best.

The Sea People presents the archaeological data relating to the Holocene occupation of the Whitsunday Islands region of the Central Queensland coast. This research provides details of the two oldest sites of Aboriginal occupation on the tropical east coast of Australia, as well as formulating a model of late Holocene change for the wider region. Essentially this work supports the idea of a dynamic Aboriginal society and presents the archaeological evidence for a specialised marine Aboriginal culture continuously utilising the marine environment throughout the Holocene.

This book is about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. It describes how Freud’s textual presentations of himself and others give to the institution of psychoanalysis its principal concepts, structures and processes. The compass of such a task is of course ambitious, from exploring the deep individual psychical histories expressed in textual presentations to mapping the vast networks of an institution that has become one of the defining intellectual and cultural movements of the last century.

This unique selection of key documents in Australian literary criticism signals a new approach to the mapping of Australia's cultural and intellectual history. Critical documents are grouped into four time periods with recurring thematic subheadings to identify continuities and mark genuine innovations as post-war Australian criticism responds to changing international trends in the theory and interpretation of literature. Authority and Influence encourages the inclusion of the history of criticism as a standard part of research training wherever Australian literature is studied and includes a comprehensive introduction which suggests a new understanding of our critical tradition.

Conversations on the Condamine
Edited by Catherine Potter, Sarah Moles, Libby Connors and Pam Postle

This book is based on a project of the Condamine Catchment Management Association, 'Listening to our Elders', which was completed in 2002.   It provides an oral history of the Condamine River covering it from its source near Killarney to the west of Chinchilla at the start of Balonne.  The book, which also included a tape and CD based on extracts from the interviews, covers the river’s indigenous and nineteenth and twentieth century history. 

‘The river’s ecological health cannot be separated from its social history.  The Condamine River has marked the local community’s sense of place as much as the rolling grassy plains of the Downs.  I hope understanding the river’s place in our local history will help the community to value and respect the Condamine as more than just an industrial resource.”

A watershed in Australian literature, the 1890s saw the emergence of a diverse set of social, cultural and political movements - feminist, labor, liberal, civic, imperial loyalist, regional, nationalist, professional, aesthetic - which gave scope and structure to an extraordinary variety of writing careers. Grouping selections of poetry, short fiction, editorials and novel extracts in six sections: Histories and Futures, Home and Away, Love and Other Catastrophes, Work and Play, Civilization and its Discontents, and Art and Society, this anthology showcases the diversity of a period which produced Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Barbara Baynton, Miles Franklin, Louis Becke, Edward Dyson, Ada Cambridge, Will Ogilvie, Catharine Martin, George Essex Evans and Tasma.

The first collection of major critical essays on Frank Hardy, 'the most Australian Australian,' and cultural workers such as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanney, Dorothy Hewett and Ruth Park who were active in or around the Communist Party of Australia from the 1940s into the 1970s. The editors have gathered material from a broad variety of sources and critical perspectives including work by David Carter, John Frow, John McLaren, Carole Ferrier, Nathan Hollier, Peter Williams, Cathy Greenfield and Delys Bird. Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment also republishes Tony Morphett's revealing Spectrum interview, Dave Nadel's controversial key to Power Without Glory and a posthumously published essay by Hardy. The result is a study which explores and traces the place of Hardy in relation to his peers, changing trends in Australian literary criticism and the public memory.

Leading scholars and critics such as Graeme Turner, Elizabeth Webby, Cassandra Pybus, Terry Threadgold, Robert Dixon, Andrew McCann, Carole Ferrier, and David Carter reflect upon the status and function of Australian literature within the public sphere. This collection of essays developed from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference held at the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba in July 1998.