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Chris Gibson

2012

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Place And Music: Performing "The Region" On The New South Wales Far North Coast, Christopher R. Gibson Sep 2012

Place And Music: Performing "The Region" On The New South Wales Far North Coast, Christopher R. Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper draws on research conducted for over a decade on the musical cultures of the New South Wales Far North Coast, as a contribution to debates in geography and popular music studies on the links between music, place and articulations of cultural identities. Patterns of migration and economic restructuring over the last 20 years have transformed the Far North Coast region, with associated changes in the images conjured to describe the region – from those centred on dairying, fishing and sugar harvesting to those of a ‘lifestyle’ or ‘alternative’ region, with growth in employment in tourism, recreational services, ‘gourmet’ …


Place Making: Mapping Culture, Creating Places: Collisions Of Science And Art, Christopher R. Gibson Jun 2012

Place Making: Mapping Culture, Creating Places: Collisions Of Science And Art, Christopher R. Gibson

Chris Gibson

The arts have much to offer the reinvention of places: generating new forms of employment in cultural work, contributing to public culture through festivals and events, and appropriating spaces in the built environments of our cities and towns for artistic expression. Filtering artistic attempts to re-make places are three key competing pressures: first, the demands of regional development managers, treasury bureaucrats and council general managers for accountability, ‘hard data’ and measurable outcomes; second, desires of local residents, non-profit organisations and community development specialists to use the arts as a means to promote social inclusion and recognition of social difference; and …


Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell Jun 2012

Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell

Chris Gibson

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