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Repertoire, Performance, Implementation And Standardisation In Music For Formal Dance Performance On Cruise Ships, David Cashman
Repertoire, Performance, Implementation And Standardisation In Music For Formal Dance Performance On Cruise Ships, David Cashman
David Cashman
One of the many forms of musical performance aboard cruise ships is that accompanying formal dance, or “Strict Tempo Ballroom” performance. Formal dance is an important aspect of the traditional cruise ship tourism product, with links to the “glory days” of passenger shipping, media images that are used to create desire for cruise ship consumption. Such performance occurs using a compact version of a traditional big band at some stage on nearly every cruise ship. Repertoire ranges from standard 1930s big band hits to 1960s and 70s film music and 70s funk. The cruise industry realises formal dance music in …
Assessing Progress In The Roof Over Our Heads Venture, Angela Coco, Louise Horstmanshof
Assessing Progress In The Roof Over Our Heads Venture, Angela Coco, Louise Horstmanshof
Angela Coco
Executive Summary This report furnishes a progress evaluation of the cross disciplinary Roof over our Head venture initiated in the School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) in 2010. The venture was suggested by Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Coyle as a means of building upon Social Science research being undertaken in the School by Doctors Sandy Darab and Yvonne Hartman. Researchers from the Media Program, Dr Grayson Cooke and Assoc. Prof. Coyle, and Arts, Doctors Moya Costello and Janie Conway-Herron put forth project proposals which were incrementally developed throughout 2011. Roof over our Heads (henceforward Roof) aimed to develop research to …
Kellerman: Expanded: A Live Audio-Visual Performance In The Whitsundays, Grayson Cooke
Kellerman: Expanded: A Live Audio-Visual Performance In The Whitsundays, Grayson Cooke
Grayson Cooke
‘Kellerman: EXPANDED’ was a live audio-visual performance and improvisation, specially produced for the Seventh International Small island Cultures Conference in the Whitsundays (June 2011). It was a ‘live cinema’ remix project, in which footage from films featuring and about Australian champion swimmer and silent film star Annette Kellerman was mixed live against a soundtrack made up of songs about the Whitsundays and tracks by sound artist Mike Cooper. Annette Kellerman was an Australian performer who achieved fame as a synchronised swimmer in the London and New York Hippodromes in the 1910s and, later, as a silent film star. She spent …