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Chalon, Christopher. "Conflict and citizenship behaviour in Australian performing arts organisations." University of Western Australia. Faculty of Economics and Commerce, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0096.

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The managers of professional performing arts organisations are faced with a unique dilemma. They must support their artistic personnel, who are typically driven by the quest for new, challenging and experimental works, while achieving the economic success necessary for the continued viability of their organisations. Failing to effectively manage this artistic-economic dichotomy can result in a conflict between artists and managers that threatens the long-term survival of these organisations. There is a clear need, therefore, for arts managers to foster an organisational climate that minimises

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McCarron, Robyn Janelle. "Performing arts and regional communities : the case of Bunbury, Western Australia /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050501.153348.

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Le, Thi Kieu Huong. "Performing Arts Management in a Climate of Adjustment: Case Studies from Vietnam and Australia." School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1115.

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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)<br>This thesis investigates performing arts administration and management in the current economic and social environment in Vietnam and Australia within a context of globalisation. A comparative study of two major arts organisations in both Vietnam and Australia was carried out to investigate the following: why and how performing arts organisations are adapting to the changing environment; how arts leaders are adapting to changes; and whether arts managers need specific arts management training. The suitability of pertinent training packages and tertiary arts manageme

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au, r. mccarron@ecu edu, and Robyn McCarron. "Performing arts in regional communities: The case of Bunbury, Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050501.153348.

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Abstract In Australia during the 1990s increased attention was paid to regional, rural and remote communities and, in terms of arts and culture, the establishment of regional arts umbrella organisations, at both national and state levels, stimulated interest in, and development of, the arts in those communities. Discourses around the notion of the civil society and the ways in which social and cultural capital can be acquired and transferred, have led to renewed interest in the economic and social functions of the voluntary, not-for-profit sector of Australian society. This thesis aims to ad

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McCarron, Robyn. "Performing arts in regional communities: the case of Bunbury, Western Australia." Thesis, McCarron, Robyn (2004) Performing arts in regional communities: the case of Bunbury, Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/191/.

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In Australia during the 1990s increased attention was paid to regional, rural and remote communities and, in terms of arts and culture, the establishment of regional arts umbrella organisations, at both national and state levels, stimulated interest in, and development of, the arts in those communities. Discourses around the notion of the civil society and the ways in which social and cultural capital can be acquired and transferred, have led to renewed interest in the economic and social functions of the voluntary, not-for-profit sector of Australian society. This thesis aims to advance t

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McCarron, Robyn. "Performing arts in regional communities: the case of Bunbury, Western Australia." McCarron, Robyn (2004) Performing arts in regional communities: the case of Bunbury, Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/191/.

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In Australia during the 1990s increased attention was paid to regional, rural and remote communities and, in terms of arts and culture, the establishment of regional arts umbrella organisations, at both national and state levels, stimulated interest in, and development of, the arts in those communities. Discourses around the notion of the civil society and the ways in which social and cultural capital can be acquired and transferred, have led to renewed interest in the economic and social functions of the voluntary, not-for-profit sector of Australian society. This thesis aims to advance t

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Richards, Alison 1951. "Bodies of meaning : issues of field and habitus in contemporary Australasian theatrical performance practice." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7815.

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Carroll, Jacqui. "Changing lanes : an exploration of the journey from dance through choreography to directing and the spoken word." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35821/1/35821_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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Marshall, Anne. "Ngaparti-ngaparti ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience. /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040804.155726/index.html.

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Marshall, Anne, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning. "Ngapartji-ngapartji : ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience." THESIS_CAESS_SELL_Marshall_A.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/556.

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All forms of cultural interaction are expressive and creative. In particular, what the performing arts express is not always the conscious, the ideal and the rational, but more often the preconscious, pre-verbal, asocial and irrational, touching on darker undercurrents of human and extra-human interrelations, experiences, beliefs, fears, desires and values. So what is performance and how does it differ in cultures? A performance is a translation of an idea into a synaesthetic experience. In the context of this thesis, however, translation does not imply reductive literal translation as can be

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Meekison, Lisa. "Playing the games : indigenous performance in Australia's Festival of the Dreaming." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670221.

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Bemrose, Anna. "A servant of art : Robert Helpmann in Australia /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17332.pdf.

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McLennan, Lesley. "Competition policy and its impact on the performing arts in Queensland." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36342/1/36342_McLennan_2000.pdf.

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National Competition Policy as a cornerstone in the commercialisation and corporatisation of the public services signalled government moving away from an interventionist position by adopting private enterprise and market driven decision making as the preferred model. The impact of this movement on the interface between government and the traditionally subsidised perforrning art..s companies in Queensland is the subject of this research. When the public sector begins to imitate the private sector and government departments call to accountability their agencies, these non-profit service a

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St, Leon Mark. "Circus & nation : a critical inquiry into circus in its Australian setting, 1847-2006, from the perspectives of society, enterprise and culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1702.

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In Australia, like most countries, circus has been an element, at times a very important element, in the mosaic that constitutes its popular culture. An outgrowth of the circus as recast in a modern form in London in the 18th century, an Australian circus profession has existed almost continuously since 1847. Australia’s circus entrepreneurs took the principal features of English, and later American, circus arts and management and reworked these features to suit their new antipodean context. The athletic, intellectually undemanding nature of its equestrian-based entertainments harmonised with

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Hands, Karen Ruth. "A Space Of Possibles: Artistic Directors and Leadership in Australian Theatre." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366162.

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This research investigates the agency of artistic directors of subsidised major Australian theatre organisations in the post Major Performing Arts Inquiry (1999) sector. The research was conducted in response to a new generation of artistic directors commencing leadership of the major theatre companies from 2008. This new era of leadership was expected to revitalise the sector, however it remained in a perceived state of artistic and financial crisis. This thesis considers the role of the artistic director as an artistic leader of the field, and examines how the agency of this position came t

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Latchford, Norma. "A Study of the Relationship between Mining and the Performing Arts in Australia 1850 – 1914: case studies of the Ballarat and Kalgoorlie-Boulder goldfields." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78567.

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In describing the historical development of these two settlements based on mining, this thesis outlines the ways in which the performing arts played a significant role in the evolving social and cultural development of both centres and that mining, especially in the form of the these two goldrushes, was highly influential in the distinctive development of the performing arts in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century and beyond.

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McPherson, Ailsa School of Theatre Film &amp Dance UNSW. "Diversions in a tented field : theatricality and the images and perceptions of warfare in Sydney entertainments 1879-1902." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Theatre, Film and Dance, 2001. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18264.

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This thesis examines the theatricality which accompanied the establishment, development and deployment of the colonial army in New South Wales during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It investigates the transfer to the colony of the military ethos of the Imperial power, and explores the ways in which performances of military spectacle, in both theatrical and paratheatrical contexts, were interpreted by the colonists. The primary sources for the research are the Sydney press and the Mitchell `Australiana' collection of the State Library of New South Wales. The framework of the a

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Rice, Jeremy F. "My worst ever night at the best school ball ever : creating taboo theatre for teenagers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/849.

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My Worst Ever Night at the Best School Ball Ever (School Ball) is a new play for teenage audiences. The action takes place on the night of a ball for final year students. A prank with a goat goes horribly wrong, a photo of a girl pissing in a pot plant is widely circulated, and everyone finds out about the boy in a sexual relationship with a teacher. At the heart of the play are teenagers, armed with mobile phones, trying to find their way in a contradictory and confusing world. The creative development of School Ball centred on practice-based artistic research into the field of theatre for yo

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McEwan, Celina. "Investing in play expectations, dependencies and power in Australian practices of community cultural development /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3680.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 9, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Performance Studies, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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St, Leon Mark. "Circus & nation : a critical inquiry into circus in its Australian setting, 1847-2006, from the perspectives of society, enterprise and culture." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1702.

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PhD<br>In Australia, like most countries, circus has been an element, at times a very important element, in the mosaic that constitutes its popular culture. An outgrowth of the circus as recast in a modern form in London in the 18th century, an Australian circus profession has existed almost continuously since 1847. Australia’s circus entrepreneurs took the principal features of English, and later American, circus arts and management and reworked these features to suit their new antipodean context. The athletic, intellectually undemanding nature of its equestrian-based entertainments harmonise

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Piening, Simon. "The idea of audience : audience development and the creative industries in Australia's small-to-medium performing arts sector." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2022. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/185173.

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In recent decades, the governance of arts and culture in Australia has been dominated by the “creative industries” model, which is a market-driven approach to cultural policy that seeks to bring together those workers who operate in the realm of creativity with those who have the knowledge and resources to monetise their creative output. The increased focus on market outcomes has resulted in the need for arts organisation to pay much greater attention to developing audiences and cultivating consumers for the arts. However, strikingly absent from much of the discussion concerning audience devel

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Gration, Steven Robert. "The Praxis of the Solo Performer: The Theories and Practices Explored during the Creation of a Solo Performance based on the Life and Art of Ian Fairweather." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365217.

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This research investigates the field of performance practice often referred to as monodramas, one-person plays or variously as one-woman or one-man shows, I adopt a more encompassing term, Solo Performance, to describe the activities of an individual performing to an audience within the field of Drama. Central to the conclusions I have drawn are the insights emerging from the processes involved in creating an original solo performance text and a live solo performance based primarily on events in the life of the Australian visual artist Ian Fairweather....etc.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Docto

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Lees, Jennifer Anne. "Eisteddfoditis : the significance of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod in Australian cultural history 1933-1941 /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051109.114852/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) (Communication & Media) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003.<br>A thesis submitted in requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Communication & Media, University of Western Sydney, 2003. Bibliography : leaves 350-372.

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Lees, Jennifer Anne. "Eisteddfoditis : the significance of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod in Australian cultural history 1933-1941." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/714.

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This thesis documents the early history of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod from its beginning in 1933 until it recessed in 1941 for the duration of the Pacific War. Eisteddfods had long been commonplace in Australia, but this competition began for political rather than cultural reasons in 1932, when organisers of the Harbour Bridge celebrations decided that since the spectacular edifice had made Sydney an icon on the world map, the city needed to cultivate a more sophisticated image. In observing events that led to its establishment, the project looks at the technological revolution of the 1920s

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Bradford, Shannon Leigh. "The Australian Theatre of the Deaf essence, sensibility, style /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3014976.

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Connell, Kathleen R. "Investigating Performance Career Making and Career Transition through the Lens of Australia's Elite Classical Singers." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/398418.

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Creative careers in the performing arts follow a somewhat unique trajectory that is driven by specific skill demands and market conditions. This thesis investigates the careers of Australian classical singers through a qualitative interview-based study and analysis. The thesis outlines a trajectory of singers’ careers as they have become evident in the experiences of professional singers. Interviews with 13 retired professional classical singers were undertaken. Career theories and empirical studies from elite dance and sportsperson were interrogated to provide a basis for a qualitative exami

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Totten, Christopher Lee. "To be FRANK : Austral-Asian Performance Ensemble /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17845.pdf.

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Lees, Jennifer Anne, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Eisteddfoditis : the significance of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod in Australian cultural history 1933-1941." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Lees_J.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/714.

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This thesis documents the early history of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod from its beginning in 1933 until it recessed in 1941 for the duration of the Pacific War. Eisteddfods had long been commonplace in Australia, but this competition began for political rather than cultural reasons in 1932, when organisers of the Harbour Bridge celebrations decided that since the spectacular edifice had made Sydney an icon on the world map, the city needed to cultivate a more sophisticated image. In observing events that led to its establishment, the project looks at the technological revolution of the 1920s

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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.

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While much has been written on the Australian film and television industry, little has been presented by actual producers, filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion, synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insi

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McPherson, Ailsa. "Diversions in a tented field : theatricality and the images and perceptions of warfare in Sydney entertainments 1879-1902 /." 2001. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20021008.140716/index.html.

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Huang, Chi-Hui, and 黃琦惠. "A Research on the Supporting Systems of International Development for the Performing Arts in Australia." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/euw23d.

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碩士<br>國立臺北藝術大學<br>藝術行政與管理研究所碩士班<br>94<br>The development of modern science and technology, progressing by leaps and bounds, has pulled closer the distance between countries. International commercial and cultural exchange is now a day to day reality that every industry is facing the global competition. Under Taiwan’s current political situation, the challenge that Taiwan faces in the international society is severe. In order to promote Taiwanese image on the world stage, cultural diplomacy becomes a breakthrough tool. The government impels "Challenge 2008 ─Council for Economic Planning and Dev

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Thoraval, Yannick. "Race, Place and Grace: Cosmopolitanism in Small Town Australia." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42240/.

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This multidisciplinary PhD comprises a novel and exegesis, which, together, explore the idea that some small Australian towns may promote the likelihood of residents having intercultural experiences associated with cosmopolitanism. The exegesis examines social, political and economic conditions which may support cosmopolitan experience. The novel dramatizes how the lived social environment can influence one’s emotional experience of cultural difference. Together, the novel and exegesis conclude that small towns present social conditions, which can promote empathy and cultural curiosity. The c

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Marshall, Anne. "Ngapartji-ngapartji : ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience." Thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/556.

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All forms of cultural interaction are expressive and creative. In particular, what the performing arts express is not always the conscious, the ideal and the rational, but more often the preconscious, pre-verbal, asocial and irrational, touching on darker undercurrents of human and extra-human interrelations, experiences, beliefs, fears, desires and values. So what is performance and how does it differ in cultures? A performance is a translation of an idea into a synaesthetic experience. In the context of this thesis, however, translation does not imply reductive literal translation as can be

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Arrighi, Gillian Anne. "A circus and its context: the FitzGerald Brothers' Circus in Australia and New Zealand, 1888-1906." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312413.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Throughout the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century, the FitzGerald Brothers' Circus was the largest and most popular homegrown circus touring in Australasia. Their productions were at once fabulous and educational, parochial and cosmopolitan, political and sensual. The company's principals, Dan and Tom FitzGerald were astute showmen, sensitive to the shifting tastes of their public, and people of all ages and stations found something in their shows that appealed. Drawing on a diverse range of primary source material, this thesis exa

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al-Qassas, Adil. "Displace or Be Displaced Narratives of Multiple Exile in the Sudanese Communities in Australia." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32313/.

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This thesis consists of two parts. Both parts navigate the experience of displacement, in both realist and metaphorical modes, of a number of Sudanese expatriates to Australia. The first part, a fictional account in the form of a novella, employs different points of view to explore a range of diasporic encounters undergone by diverse Sudanese migrants and refugees prior to and during resettlement in Australia. Taking the events of the author’s life as its focus, the second part delves into narratives of personal, inner displacement that have deep roots in the history of Sudan and the question

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Breen, Marcus. "The popular music industry in Australia : a study of policy reform and retreat, 1982-1996." Thesis, 1996. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15443/.

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This study examines the political economy of popular music policy initiatives during 1982-1996, when the Australian Labor Party was in government Federally and in the State of Victoria. Building on the cultural studies concept of articulation, the popular music formulation theory is proposed as the basis for examining the alignment of the fields of social and industry policy with the existing popular music industry. A series of case studies examine the ALP'S interest in popular music policy, the influence of Australian popular music achievements on the policy formation, the role of a

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Gandolfo, Enza. "My life is over now : a novel and critical commentary." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15420/.

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My aim in writing this novel is to give readers a new experience, one that will force them to reassess their views, opinions and beliefs, so that they will alter the way they look at the world - specifically here, how they look at family relationships and conflicts, at women and mothering, and at migrants. This critical component of my thesis focuses on these questions exploring in particular the genre of 'migrant' or 'multicultural' literature. I will argue that this genre classification, developed by literary theorists and not by novelists, can have a negative effect on the way the novels o

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Holmes, Susan. "First Impressions: Writing a contemporary Australian adaptation of Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/27713/.

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This thesis consists of two components, the novel, which is 70% of the total and the exegesis, which is 30% of the thesis. Together, the novel and the exegesis are an exploration of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of a creative writer working to understand and adapt Austen’s writing style. The focus on the concept of Emotional Intelligence is a deliberate strategy with two objectives, firstly to bring new insights into the reading and analyses of the novel and secondly to use this form of analysis to enhance the writing of a contemporary Australian adaptation. Thus this modern conc

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Cerne, Helen. "Shifting: the creation and theoretical exploration of a collaborative autobiographical novel." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15448/.

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This Master of Arts thesis has two parts: a collaborative autobiographical novel Shifting, written by Helen and Serge Cerne, and a theoretical commentary which explores aspects of collaborative writing. The research material in this thesis has come from a variety of resources: primary and secondary sources, literature data bases, a journal I kept while writing the novel, interviews with family members, discussions with my partner and field visits to places represented in the novel. Only my part of the novel has been submitted for examination but the whole of Shifting has been included becaus

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Bendrups, Faye. "Service station : straying the Australian landscape : a modern Aussie ballad opera." Thesis, 1996. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15566/.

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Have you driven someplace, walked or climbed or jumped in from two miles up? Have you travelled thousands of kilometres world-wide by motor vehicle, round mazes of freeways and off the beaten track? Set against this activity are interruptions, intended or unintended; a necessary fuel stop, an unforeseen accident, R&R, times to debrief, reflect and record. On the road, this duality is a constant. It seemed that a focal point for exploring these opposing forces could be the SERVICE STATION - a place of brief stops and encounters, but also of continual movement -of machinery, vehicles, work; of c

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Brown, Janet M. "The writing and research of the novel 'The Shaded Side'." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18146/.

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The purpose of this project has been to research and write the novel The Shaded Side and a critical commentary. The novel is based on the fictitious events that take place in an Australian tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1940s. The story locates and reflects the consequences of relationships, experiences, morals and attitudes of this early period against the present day story of an adult adoptee searching for the identity of her birth mother. Research into the history of TB treatment in Australia and into broader representations of illness and disease has been required for the project

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Patrick, Trevor. "The form of possibilities : the body remembered and remembering in the built environment." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19427/.

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I have used the imaginative process of Ideokinesis, as an embodied and performed methodology, where my work is in direct dialogue with a unique system of movement and postural training developed by Mabel Todd, Barbara Clark, and Lulu Sweigard. Its functioning is not with ‘actual’ movement but with virtual and imagined movement – it thus calls on memory and imagining. These processes have resulted in two outcomes: a sequence of narratives arranged as Acts of remembering – a saturation in words, images, and imaginings – and the creation of a theatrical performance, which engages with what

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Farrow, Erin. "Somewhere Between: The Shifting Trends in the Narrative Strategies and Preoccupations of the Young Adult Realistic Fiction Genre in Australia." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/35052/.

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‘Young adult realistic fiction’ is a classification used by contemporary publishers such as Random House, McGraw Hill Education and Scholastic, who define it as ‘stories with characters, settings, and events that could plausibly happen in true life’ (Scholastic 2014). From the first Australian young adult imprint in 1986 it has become possible to trace substantial shifts in the trends of genre. This thesis explores some of the ways that the narrative structures and preoccupations of contemporary Australian young adult realistic fiction novels have shifted, particularly in regards to the portra

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Scott, Rob. "The History of Australian Haiku and the Emergence of a Local Accent." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25867/.

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Since haiku first crossed Australian borders more than one hundred years ago, it has undergone a process of translation, interpretation and transformation. This study examines aspects of haiku’s cultural transmission and evolution in Australia from a genre oriented to the early Japanese models, to one which is informed by a growing international haiku community and an emerging local sensibility. This study will examine the origins of Australian haiku by evaluating the contribution of some of its most important translators and educators and assess the legacy of Australia’s early haiku edu

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Allen, Delia Frances. "This town, last town, next town: the women of sideshow alley and the boxing tents: a novel and exegesis." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25868/.

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This doctoral creative thesis comprises a novel This town, last town, next town, and an accompanying exegesis. The novel is set in Western Australia in the 1950s in sideshow alley, a unique part of Australian culture that has not previously been represented in Australian fiction. It is a period in which the sideshow is coming to the end of its heyday as a place of carnival and spectacle. The three main characters are: Joan Tiernan, a dancer and married to the owner of an entertainment show; Rose Jackson, the wife of a boxing tent owner; and Corrie Cooper, married to an Aboriginal boxer.

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Pranauskas, Grazina. "Torn : the story of a Lithuanian migrant." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/29676/.

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This doctorate consists of two parts: a novel Torn and the exegesis: Writing the migrant story: nostalgia, identity and belonging. The novel and theoretical exegesis are intended to complement each other in capturing the 20th century Lithuanian historical and political circumstances that led to Lithuanian emigration to Australia. In my novel and exegesis, my intention has been to explore how the experiences of Lithuanian refugees and migrants differ, especially in relation to nostalgia, identity and belonging, depending on the time and circumstances of their arrival in Australia. Lithuanians

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Dale, Graeme. "'Stepping out of the Shadows': an examination of female larrikins in Melbourne and the influence of popular culture on their behaviour (1878-1888); an Exegesis and Documentary Theatre play, ‘Flash Donahs’." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42231/.

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This thesis is a two-part practice-based research project comprised of a Documentary Theatre play-script, ‘Flash Donahs’, and an accompanying exegesis, entitled, 'Stepping out of the Shadows': an examination of female larrikins in Melbourne and the influence of popular culture on their behaviour (1878-1888)’. This thesis is also comprised of a live performance and recording of ‘Flash Donahs’ (20/4/18). Despite the best efforts of a patriarchal ‘Victorian-era’ society to suppress female dissent and activism, the defiant and often confronting behaviour of larrikin women was a contributing socia

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Brooke, Sarah. "Giving flight to the Imagination : using portraiture to tell the story of Orff Schulwerk and a family music education setting." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/35778/.

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The Orff Schulwerk approach to music and movement education actively seeks to provide flight to the imagination through a playful, inclusive, engaging, creative and artistic pedagogy. As an approach to classroom music education it focuses on participatory music making in groups encompassing the social and emotional needs of the student. Orff educators interpret the Schulwerk in different ways, and as a non-prescriptive approach to music and movement education, this is to be welcomed. However, this freedom in interpretation has led to a variety of beliefs and practices, some of which bear littl

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Pelosi, Ligia. "Whispering into knowing: teachers as creative beings." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34675/.

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This study (re)presents how teachers enact pedagogy in order to become transformative agents of change in their students’ lives. The importance of teacher agency and creative, arts-based practices in the teaching and learning of literacy was explored during interviews with a small sample of Australian primary school practitioners. The field texts are (re)presented in the form of a novel that interrogates the contemporary landscape of schooling as a datadriven, political instrument. The novel, which should be read first, looks at the impact of creativity in classrooms and on teachers’ li

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Cervini, Erica. "Reading the Silence of My Great-Grandmother: The Role of Life-Writing in Locating the Hidden Life of a Jewish Woman." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40049/.

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Family history has become a significant cultural, academic and economic pursuit giving rise to television shows, university degrees and DNA testing. Family historians grapple with epistemological questions about the extent to which a life can ever be known to someone else – limited resources exacerbate the problem. This thesis, by creative project and exegesis, focuses on Rose Pearlman, my Great-Grandmother [1875 – 1956], and explores how the genre of life-writing contributes to our understanding of an ‘ordinary’ Jewish woman who migrated to Australia from England leaving no traditional sourc

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