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Austral voices: recommended music resources in the school syllabus and The School Magazine, 1916 to 1956
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Austral voices: recommended music resources in the school syllabus and The School Magazine, 1916 to 1956

Marilyn J Chaseling and Robert J Smith
Australian Folklore, Vol.28, pp.188-206
2014

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Education Other Language, Literature and Culture

School education can reveal aspects of a community's values, in that which it wishes to pass on to the future. In the first half of the twentieth century it may have been the main mode of cultural transmission. In such troubled times, dealing with two great Wars, this paper traces the music resources recommended for teaching - the sequence of required syllabuses and the supportive School Magazine - and despite the jingoism finds hope.

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