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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 20
Page 144
... companies specialising in particular genres circus , melodrama , ' legitimate ' drama , the minstrel show were still ... companies to access those markets efficiently and economically . The result was the appearance of a myriad of ...
... companies specialising in particular genres circus , melodrama , ' legitimate ' drama , the minstrel show were still ... companies to access those markets efficiently and economically . The result was the appearance of a myriad of ...
Page 147
... companies were making regular visits to even the most isolated areas . Broken Hill now boasted two theatres , and troupes like William Anderson's Dramatic Company , Walter Sanford's American Players and the Corrick family , which ...
... companies were making regular visits to even the most isolated areas . Broken Hill now boasted two theatres , and troupes like William Anderson's Dramatic Company , Walter Sanford's American Players and the Corrick family , which ...
Page 149
... companies touring the backblocks . In fact many of them were not very good , for they consisted not of professional minstrel performers but of men who had come to Australia with dramatic companies . Finding themselves without employment ...
... companies touring the backblocks . In fact many of them were not very good , for they consisted not of professional minstrel performers but of men who had come to Australia with dramatic companies . Finding themselves without employment ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines agricultural allowed areas argued associated ATCJ August became Bulletin Bush capital carried cattle century changes characters Chinese claimed clubs colonial communities companies continued convicts culture December developed early economic English established European families farmers farms February History horses houses improvements included industry introduced January John June kangaroos labour land late least less lived managers March Melbourne Minstrel Show nineteenth century Northern Territory November October organised pastoral pastoralists performed perhaps play policies popular Press production properties Queensland racing reflected relations remained Report result River runs rural Australia Selection selectors September settlement settlers shearers shearing sheep shepherds social society soldier sometimes South Australia South Wales sport squatters stations stories success Sydney theatre took towns traditional travelled turn University urban values Victoria wages Walkabout Western Australia women wool workers World