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Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Unchanging Places, Christopher Gibson
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Chris Gibson
This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong - a medium-sized Australian city with a decentralized and linear suburban pattern that challenges orthodox binaries of inner-city bohemia/outer-suburban domesticity. In Wollongong we documented community perceptions of cultural assets across this unusual setting, through a simple public research method. At the city's largest annual festival we recruited the general public to nominate the city's most 'cool' and 'creative' places, by drawing on a map of Wollongong and telling their stories. Hand-drawn maps from 205 participants were combined in a Geographical Information System and 50 hours of stories transcribed for …
Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson
Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell
Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell
Chris Gibson
This chapter examines how music informs the creation of tourist places in Australia. It discusses one genre-ambient music-and the way it is related to geography both symbolically (in terms of cultural representations), and literally (in terms of links to musical and touristic activities in particular towns). The rise of ambient music has contributed to the imaginative representation of a touristic Australia of "natural" physical and cultural landscapes, where indigenous people are particularly significant. Designed to encourage relaxation and even sleep, in its cover art, its sounds and lyrics (where they exist), ambient music has emphasized "special" places both generic and …