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A Coveted Possession
Michael Atherton
其他書名
The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia
出版Black Inc., 2018-07-02
主題Music / Musical Instruments / Piano & KeyboardMusic / History & CriticismHistory / Australia & New ZealandMusic / Musical Instruments / StringsHistory / General
ISBN17438205269781743820520
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tERMDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia

From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano. It charts the piano’s fascinating adventures across Australia – on the goldfields, at the frontlines of war, in the manufacturing hubs of the Federation era, and in the hands of the makers, entrepreneurs, teachers and virtuosos of the twentieth history – to illuminate the many worlds in which the ivories were tinkled.

Before electricity brought us the gramophone, the radio and eventually the TV, the piano was central to family and community life. With its iron frame, polished surfaces and ivory keys, an upright piano in the home was a modern industrial machine, a musical instrument and a treasured member of the household, conveying powerful messages about class, education, leisure, national identity and intergenerational history.

‘Michael Atherton cleverly weaves visual, sensual and sonic elements into the piano’s sociocultural history, adding a rich layer to our knowledge of the piano in Australia.’ —Professor Julia Horne, historian