Currency companion to music and dance in Australia / Companion to music and dance in Australia. Music and dance in Australia. general editors John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell. - Sydney : Currency House, 2003. - 734 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes index.

"This publication is unique in its comprehensiveness and recognision of cultural diversity and a broad notion of community. It covers the history of concert music, opera, ballet, music teaching, composition, instruments, venues, union activity, Aboriginal music, and all forms of popular and folk music and dance. It embraces the wide variety of immigrant influences from Europe, America and particularly the Pacific. There's sound art, computer music, electroacoustics, belly dance, debutante balls, subcultures, music videos and much more. Over two hundred academics, practitioners and private researchers from all parts of Australia and beyond are among this book's contributors." -- WorldCat

0958121311 9780958121316


Music--Australia--Encyclopedias
Dance --Australia--Encyclopedias

780.994 / WHI