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Informationen zum Autor Jane W. Davidson has performed in and directed opera for more than 30 years. She is currently Head of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. She has published widely, across the field of music psychology, musicology and practice as research. She is president of the Australian Music and Psychology Society. Michael Halliwell has enjoyed a career as an opera singer in Europe and as an academic at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely, and is president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies. Stephanie Rocke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne affiliated with ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions with wide-ranging interests and publications in music and culture across time. Zusammenfassung Taking Australia as a case study, this double collection demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance, but are at least partly produced, defined and regulated by culture. The first volume covers Historical Perspectives, the second Applied Perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Context and Concepts Introduction Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell and Stephanie Rocke Chapter 1 Historical Accounts and Emotions Contexts of Opera in Australia since Colonisation Jane W. Davidson and Stephanie Rocke Part 2: Western Opera in the Antipodean Metropolis & Regional Circuit (1840-1920) Chapter 2 Setting the Scene; Preparing the Backdrop: Establishing the Cultural Space for Opera in Early Melbourne (1840-1851) Esmeralda Rocha and Stephanie Rocke Chapter 3 Opera and Emotions in Gold Rush Melbourne (1851-1890) Esmeralda Rocha and Stephanie Rocke Chapter 4 The Art of the Impossible: Fanny & Martin Simonsen’s Family Odyssey Caroline Anne Ellsmore Chapter 5 Henry Tate’s "Marvellous Melbourne": Heartfelt Responses to Opera and the Opera Companies of his Lifetime (1873-1926) Christine Mercer Part 3 "The Other" Opera Chapter 6 Ethiopian Entertainers and Opera Burlesque: Blackface Parodies in Colonial Australia Helen J. English Chapter 7 Smoking Opium, Puffing Cigars, and Drinking Gingerbeer: Chinese Opera in Australia Michael Williams Chapter 8 Chinese Opera and Racism in Colonial Victoria 1853-1870 Stephanie Rocke ...
