The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 144
Such an observer might also infer that theatre companies specialising in
particular genres — circus , melodrama , ' legitimate ' drama , the minstrel show
— were still uncommon outside the capitals . Here I propose to examine how far
theatre ...
Such an observer might also infer that theatre companies specialising in
particular genres — circus , melodrama , ' legitimate ' drama , the minstrel show
— were still uncommon outside the capitals . Here I propose to examine how far
theatre ...
Page 147
143 Using river steamers , some bands , like the Berkeley - Barrett Dramatic
Company , toured regularly up the Murray and ... 144 By the early twentieth
century theatrical companies were making regular visits to even the most isolated
areas .
143 Using river steamers , some bands , like the Berkeley - Barrett Dramatic
Company , toured regularly up the Murray and ... 144 By the early twentieth
century theatrical companies were making regular visits to even the most isolated
areas .
Page 149
Although some of the imported bands , especially the Georgias , did well at the
rural box office , the competition was fierce for there were many blackface
companies touring the backblocks . In fact many of them were not very good , for
they ...
Although some of the imported bands , especially the Georgias , did well at the
rural box office , the competition was fierce for there were many blackface
companies touring the backblocks . In fact many of them were not very good , for
they ...
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia |
| Author | Richard Waterhouse |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Curtin University Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 1920731059, 9781920731052 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Australia & New Zealand History / Social History Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
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