Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 'The Saving Grace of Social Culture' : Early Popular Music and Performance Culture on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland
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'This article explores the dissemination of globalised popular culture forms into the 'white culture' of colonial Thursday Island (henceforth TI), the administrative centre of Torres Strait in northern Queensland. The analysis draws on a variety of media sources from approximately 1881 to 1906. It is grounded in an historical understanding of Torres Strait as a place of cultural convergence and also a society affected profoundly by the transnational flows and connections of popular culture forms, such as music, used in part to popularise British Imperialism (MacKenzie, 1992). Both 'high' and 'low' culture are examined to illustrate how British and North American cultural values and institutions helped create hybrid forms which contained aspects of the two main lineages of Australian popular culture, as explored by Whiteoak (2001; 1999; 1993), Waterhouse (1995), Johnson (1987), and Bisset (1979). Our goal in this article, and other on-going research, is to appreciate TI as the hub of this process for Torres Strait.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 8 no. 2 November Belinda McKay (editor), 2001 Z941734 2001 periodical issue 'This issue of Queensland Review coincides with the tenth anniversary of its host institution, the Queensland Studies Centre at Griffith University. In its first decade, the Centre has mounted a large number of seminars, conferences and exhibitions on a wide range of issues related to Queensland history, art, literature, politics and society for a constituency which includes individuals from Queensland universities, the teaching profession, libraries, museums and public service departments, as well as independent researchers. The Centre acts as an umbrella organisation which facilitates research into Queensland's history, politics, society and culture by maintaining a database of Queensland researchers, and involving researchers across the state in cross-disciplinary projects and partnerships. It also acts as a public education resource through answering requests for information and through the provision of public seminars on matters of contemporary interest. In addition to Queensland Review, the Centre also produces Occasional Publications.' (Editorial)  2001 pg. 1-20
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