PeterProudfoot, Seaport Sydney: the making of the city landscape. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1996. pp. vi + 311. Appendices. $39.95.

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-308
Author(s):  
Lionel Frost
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The City

Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2131-2146
Author(s):  
Gordon Waitt ◽  
Ian Buchanan ◽  
Michelle Duffy
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringing Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of territory into conversation with Greimas’s semiotic square. In doing so, this paper offers a compelling theoretical framework to better understand the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing to provide a clearer sense of how people decide to attach specific meanings to sound, and which ones they do not. The paper first reviews various theoretical approaches to sound and the city. Next, the paper turns to an ethnographic account of sound and city-centre urban life recently conducted in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. This research seeks to better understand the ways bodily dispositions to sonic affects, materials and cultural norms helped participants territorialise the city centre, distinguishing ‘energetic buzz’, ‘dead noise’, ‘dead quiet’ and ‘quiet calm’.

scholarly journals Locating the canon in Tamworth: historical narratives, cultural memory and Australia's ‘Country Music Capital’

Popular Music ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Baker ◽  
Alison Huber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Music History ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Past Work ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article concerns the regional city of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, a place that prides itself on its reputation as Australia's home of country music. We consider the ongoing memorialisation of country music in Tamworth, and how the processes associated with the project of articulating country music's past work to create and maintain something that can be recognised (and experienced) as a dominant narrative or an Australian country music ‘canon’. Outlining a number of instances in which the canon is produced and experienced (including in performances, rolls of honour and monuments built around the city), the article explores the ways in which this narrativisation of Australia's country music history contributes to a certain kind of memory of the genre's past.

Construction Workers and the City: 2. An Interview with Jack Mundey

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
J R Short
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

This second of two related papers consists of an interview with Jack Mundey, Secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation (BLF) of New South Wales from 1968 to 1973. This was a period of a property boom and intense union activity which transformed the face of Sydney.

scholarly journals Sex outside the city: Sex work in rural and regional New South Wales

Rural Society ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Scott ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
Vanessa Hunter ◽  
Angela Ragusa
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The City

Australian Symphony Orchestra

Tempo ◽  
1946 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Cecil Slocombe
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
City Council ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Full Complement ◽  
The City

A new symphony orchestra aiming at the highest standards has been founded this year in Sydney. There has been no ‘stunting’ in order to attract fame, no desperate appeals for funds, and in fact the necessity of asking for subscriptions from the public has simply not arisen.The orchestra, which has a full complement of eighty players, is financed jointly by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (a non-commercial concern), the New South Wales State Government, and the Sydney City Council. It is assured of a subsidy of £60,000 annually for three years—£30,000 from the A.B.C., £20,000 from the State Government, and £10,000 from the City Council. The last mentioned will also grant free use of the city concert hall, usually rented at £40 a night.

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