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y separately published work icon Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Sydney University Press , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Australian Vernacular Modernities : People, Sites and Practices, Robert Dixon , Veronica Kelly , single work criticism (p. xiii-xxiv)
Modernity Denied : The Case of Harold Blair's 1956 EP, Australian Aboriginal Songs, Bill Casey , single work criticism (p. 52-61)
Jedda, Negritude and the Modernist Impulse in Australian Film, Barbara Creed , single work criticism (p. 62-72)
Written to Tickle the Ears of the Groundlings in Garden Cities : The Aesthetic of Modernity: Vance and Nettie Palmer and the New Age, Deborah Jordan , single work criticism (p. 91-108)
The Davenport Brothers Down Under : Theatre, Belief and Modernity in 1870s Australia, Melissa Bellanta , single work criticism
Bellanta argues that the tours by spiritualist mediums Ira and William Davenport and stage magician Harry Keller (a.k.a. Kellar) "make it clear that theatre was a key forum in which Australians debated questions of belief" (p.171).
 (p. 171-184)
Cosmopolitans at Home : Judith Anderson and the American Aspirations of J.C. Williamson Stock Company Members, 1897-1918, Desley Deacon , single work criticism (p. 202-222)
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