Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Imagined Sound

pp 1-14

Part One - Listening to the Continent

pp 15-16

1 - Reimagining ‘The Centre’: Francis Webb's ‘Eyre All Alone’ and David Lumsdaine's Aria for Edward John Eyre

pp 17-44

2 - Midnight Oil: Sounding Australian Rock Around the Bicentenary

pp 45-64

3 - Sound and Silence: Listening and Relation in the Novels of Alex Miller

pp 65-82

Part Two - Listening to Islands and Archipelagos

pp 83-84

4 - An Archipelago of Convicts and Outsiders: The Songs of the Drones and Gareth Liddiard

pp 85-98

5 - Echoes between Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania: The Space of the Island in Richard Flanagan's Death of a River Guide and Carmel Bird's Cape Grimm

pp 99-114

6 - A Sonic Passage between Islands: Mutiny Music by Baecastuff

pp 115-136

Part Three - Listening to the Continental Archipelago

pp 137-138

7 - Noisy Songlines in the Top End

pp 139-160

Coda

pp 161-166

Notes

pp 167-168

Works Cited

pp 169-180

Index

pp 181-188