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  • Picturesque Farming: The Sound of 'Happy Britannia' in Colonial Australia

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    Denney, Peter
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    Denney, Peter
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landscape, which accorded little value to human activity and placed great emphasis on silent, rural scenery. Accordingly, colonial perceptions of soundscape were ambivalent, as human-produced ...
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    This essay examines the way in which the British landscape tradition influenced perceptions of sound, noise and silence in colonial Australia, focusing on representations of rural soundscape in art and literature. It argues that poets and artists attempted to recreate an image of Australia as a new 'Happy Britannia', a noisy society engaged in virtuous agricultural labour. But this image was opposed to the prevailing taste for picturesque landscape, which accorded little value to human activity and placed great emphasis on silent, rural scenery. Accordingly, colonial perceptions of soundscape were ambivalent, as human-produced noise was heard as both a sign of the progress of civilisation and an obstacle to the spread of cultural refinement.
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    Journal Title
    Cultural Studies Review
    Volume
    18
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/2858
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Cultural Studies Review. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Historical studies
    Australian history
    Global and world history
    Literary studies
    Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
    Cultural studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49668
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