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When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain

Autor Stephen Alomes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 1999
For thousands of young Australians the tearful dockside farewell was a rite of passage as they boarded ships bound for London. For some the journey was an extended holiday, but for many actors, painters, musicians, writers and journalists, leaving Australia seemed to be the only path to personal and professional fulfilment. This book, first published in 2000, is a collective biography of those people who found themselves categorised as expatriates - people such as Leo McKern, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Tuckwell, Don Banks, Phillip Knightley, John Pilger, Peter Porter, Richard Neville, Jill Neville and 'megastars' Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James. The book tells of choices they made about career and country, yet it is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the complex relationship between Australia and Britain, as the supposed colonial backwater began to develop its own cultural identity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521629782
ISBN-10: 0521629780
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 43 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia

Cuprins

1. Introduction; Part I. Leaving: 2. An Australian theatre or a career on stage?; 3. Sydney or Fleet Street?; 4. Musical directions; 5. Patterns of discovery: artists and writers; Part II. Climbing: 6. Grander stages; 7. Long and winding musical roads; 8. The yellow brick road to the land of OZ and beyond; 9. Journalists' journeys; 10. Crucible to firmament: Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James and the expatriate search for fame; Part III. Complicating … Solving: 11. Home and identity.

Recenzii

' … a delightful revelation of English attitudes to Australians and vice-versa.' The Examiner
' … a valuable book … Thoroughly researched, earnestly argued, it combs over the experience of exile and displacement.' The Weekend Australian
'… makes a valuable contribution in exploring and contextualising expatriatism'. Australian Book Review

Descriere

This book, first published in 2000, explores the experience of Australian expatriates in London in the creative and performing arts.