The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music

This is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space.

Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are re-harmonised in key works of literature and music.