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[rohrpost] Screening Buried Country on Thursday Oct. 19th in Frankfurt |
From: "Tony Moore" <tmoore@socialchange.net.au> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 6:00 PM Subject: Invitation:Pluto Australia Screening Buried Country on Thursday Oct. 19th in Frankfurt > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I am assisting the publishing house Pluto Press Australia and publisher > Tony Moore during the Frankfurt Book Fair (8.0 C 950, Stand Tel. 069-744 2155; > mobile 414 986 747; 0172-9171253) > > Please see below information about some of the titles featured in Pluto's > International rights catalogue. Further information on the program you find > at the website www.plutoaustralia.com and at the "e-stand in the > international rights catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair. > > I want to invite you to a special Pluto screening of the > documentary film > BURIED COUNTRY, THE STORY OF ABORIGINAL COUNTRY MUSIC > Time : Thursay 19th October at 9pm > Place: Altes Hauptzollamt, Domstr. 2 (centre of Frankfurt) > Braubachstr. / Ecke Domstr. 60311 Frankfurt/Main > > Pluto Press is selling international rights in Buried Country , by > Clinton Walker that recently appeared along with a double CD and a > documentary video. Buried Country is a comprehensive documentation of > six decades of aboriginal country music tradition which - widely unknown > in the Western hemisphere - plays an important historical role in the > cultural and political consciousness of contemporary aboriginal culture. > > See also www.buriedcountry.com for further information. > > On Thursday, Oct. 19, 9 pm, Altes Hauptzollamt, Domstr. 2 there will be > a public screening of the "Buried Country" video with an introduction by > Tony Moore, for which we would be glad to welcome you. The film is alo > available on video from the Pluto Stand. > > With best regards, > > Andreas Kallfelz > > _____________ > > Andreas Kallfelz > Lortzingstraße 28 > 60318 Frankfurt am Main > Tel. 069-5978859 / 0172-9171253 > > Tony Moore contacts at Frankfurt: > Pluto Stand 744-2155 or mobile 0414 986 747 > Email: tony@socialchange.net.au > > Pluto Press Australia > Locked Bag 199 Tel: +61 (0) 2 9519 3299 > Annandale NSW 2038 Fax: +61 (0) 2 9519 8940 > Sydney, Australia WWW: http://socialchange.net.au/ > > Information on the Pluto Press program (selected) > > BURIED COUNTRY: THE STORY OF ABORIGINAL COUNTRY MUSIC > Australia's own Buena Vista Social Club! > > A fully illustrated book. A documentary video. A CD soundtrack - all > available from Pluto Press. > > Most people don't know that it was country music that first gave > Aboriginal people a voice in modern Australia. Yet Aboriginal country > music is a very real phenomenon that's still alive today. > > Telling black stories in a way white could understand as well, country > music was not only a salve for its own dispossessed people, it became > common ground in a divided nation. > > Buried Country is authored by premier music and culture writer Clinton > Walker who describes in highly accessible, evocative language the > emergence of Aboriginal performers on the Australian musical scene, and > the parallel development of a unique black art form of country music. > > Drawing on an engaging biographical style and meticulous research and > access, Walker brings to life the rich stories of legendary performers, > including Jimmy Little, Herb Laughton, Dougie Young, Lionel Rose, Auriel > Andrew, Harry and Wilga Williams, Vic Simms, Bob "Brown Skin Baby" > Randall, Bobby McLeod, Isaac Yama, Roger Knox, Troy Cassar-Daley and > Archie Roach. > > Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs and memorabilia, fully > indexed and including a complete discography. > > BURIED COUNTRY- The Story of Aboriginal Country Music > By Clinton Walker > ISBN 1 86403 152 2 > > 323 PAGES > > Also available : > Buried Country the documentary film on video. As seen on SBS televsison. > > Produced by Film Australia. Narrated by Kev Carmody. Directed by Andy > Nehl. Written by Clinton Walker. 70 minutes. RRP$35 > > Buried Country the 2 CD set soundtrack featuring all major performers > and rare gems over 49 tracks with a 10 page booklet. Compiled by Clinton > > Walker on Festival. RRP $29.95 > > *** > > BIG JAPAN BOOK > ALTER ASIANS: ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN IDENTITIES IN ART, MEDIA AND POPULAR > CULTURE > Edited by Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas > > East meets west down under > > Asians in Australia, Australia in Asia, the 'Asianisation' of Australia > - the presence of Asians within Australia continues to be represented in > the media as a problem for social cohesion, and a source of panic. For > the first time in the Post-Hanson era, here's a book that explores this > controversial topic in contemporary Australian society and culture. By > examining the dynamic scene of Asian cultural production of art, > literature, media and performance, it shows how 'Asia' and 'Australia' > are already thoroughly intertwined in everyday culture and peoples' > minds. > > With contributions from academics, artists and performers, Alter Asians > presents the cultural consequences of our political and economic shift > towards Asia as well as enriches our understanding of the impact people > from diverse Asian backgrounds are having on Australian culture. > > ALTER ASIANS: ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN IDENTITIES IN ART, MEDIA AND POPULAR > CULTURE > > Edited by Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas > ISBN 1 86403 176 Illustrated > APPROX 300 PAGES > > *** > > SONGLINES TO SATELLITES: INDIGENOUS COMMUNICATION IN AUSTRALIA, THE > SOUTH PACIFIC AND CANADA > By Helen Molnar and Michael Meadows > > A surprising antidote to corporate homogenisation. The paradox of our > age is how globalisation and new media technologies have enfranchised > the diverse voices of local indigenous communities around the world. > > In Songlines to Satellites, authors Michael Meadows and Helen Molnar > have interviewed hundreds of indigenous people from around the world to > bring us this unique and highly accessible examination of indigenous > media. This is made up of community-controlled radio and cable TV > stations as well as indigenous media networks, and has mainly evolved in > response to the problems of mainstream media representation. The > do-it-yourself ethic that's espoused by the indigenous people of > Australia represents an inspiring counterstrategy to attempts by Bill > Gates and Rupert Murdoch to homogenise world culture. > > SONGLINES TO SATELLITES: INDIGENOUS COMMUNICATION IN AUSTRALIA, THE > SOUTH PACIFIC AND CANADA > By Helen Molnar and Michael Meadows > ISBN 1 86403 028 3 > APPROX 260 PAGES > > *** > > BODY TRADE: CAPTIVITY, CANNABALISM AND COLONIALISM IN AUSTRALIA AND THE > PACIFIC > Edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn > > The culture and history of people exhibiting people! > > Captivity, cannibalism, the circus, trading in bodies, prostitution, the > Stolen Generation - Bodytrade is the first scholarly book to explore > postcolonial issues in relation to the body in Australia. In this > fascinating analysis, a team of international scholars from a range of > disciplines - anthropology, literature, film, art history and culture > studies - examine the historical significance of the way in > which the human body has been held captive, traded and placed on display > throughout the western world. > > The essays contained in Bodytrade cover an extraordinary range of topics > - from events, exhibitions and art works dating from the time of Captain > Cook's voyages in the Pacific, to a discussion of contemporary film, > video, literature and painting. > > BODY TRADE: CAPTIVITY, CANNABALISM AND COLONIALISM IN AUSTRALIA AND THE > PACIFIC > Edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn > ISBN 1 86403 184 0 Illustrated > APPROX 275 PAGES > > > WYNDADRYNE OF THE WORRAGARI > TV POEMS > Chris Mikul > > "I learnt more from Lost In Space than I ever learnt at school." > > Great gift idea for the TV junkie in your life! > > A collection of poems, musings and images about growing up in an > Australian TV culture. A mixture of the funny, the ironic and the > poignant, these poems are based on what Chris Mikul remembers, and half > remembers, about watching TV as a child, mixed in with the intimate > memories of family life. > > Chris Mikul is a pop culture commentator, zine publisher and the author > of Bizarrism, also published by Pluto Press. > > TV Poems has enormous appeal - not just for the author's generation, > but for anybody who revels in pop culture and remembers childhood. > > Included are notes on the TV programs, a glossary, stills from the shows > quirkygraphics and memorabilia. Designed in a neat 'pocket book' format. > > TV POEMS > Chris Mikul > RRP $20 ISBN 1 86403 153 0 Illustrated > APPROX 100 PAGES > > *** > > INTRODUCING media.culture - A NEW PLUTO SERIES : Media.culture books > SERIES EDITOR : McKenzie Wark > > "It's such a slippery business... " McKenzie Wark, media studies, > Macquarie University > > *** > > IN FEAR OF SECURITY: AUSTRALIA, ASIA AND THE STRATEGIC IMAGINATION > 1788-2001 > By Anthony Burke > > Just what are we scared of ? A long term view for a short term nation > > What does it mean to be secure? > Anthony Burke's daring new book traces Australia's obsession with > security through two centuries: from Cook's voyage of discovery, through > Federation and two World Wars, to John Howard's attempts to preserve > Australia's traditions' in the face of the geopolitical and existential > upheavals of the Asian crisis. It finds in security not a > taken-for-granted value, but a sweeping and dangerous form of power that > has profoundly influenced the culture, history and politics of both > Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Most disturbingly, it shows how > in some of this history's darkest episodes - > the treatment of Aborigines, the Great War, Vietnam and East Timor - > security appears as a perverse Orwellian trick which insists that our' > security always depends on the suffering and insecurity of another. > Readable, eloquent and controversial, this book will be of interest to > all those concerned with the troubled past and turbulent future of > Australia and its region. > > IN FEAR OF SECURITY: AUSTRALIA, ASIA AND THE STRATEGIC IMAGINATION > 1788-2001 > By Anthony Burke > ISBN 1 86403 126 3 > approximately 260pp > > *** > > SENSORIA: A JOURNAL OF THE NET YEARS > By McKenzie Wark abroedk> > A decade of tumltuous change! > > In Sensoria, McKenzie Wark explores how art, culture and the media have > been transformed over the last decade of the 20th century, 'net years' > as Wark calls them. > > Based around key events of our time, such as the Tiananmen Square > massacre and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sensoria investigates the > infiltration of information into every aspect of our lives. Join Wark as > he revisits the classic icons of postwar culture, such as Elvis, > Hitchcock and Warhol and dissects some of the towering figures of > radical thought including Deluze, Debord and Kathy Acker. He also shows > how the trajectory of western culture of the 20th century can be > understood in terms of the accelerating nature of communications. Part > of the media.culture series edited by McKenzie Wark. > > SENSORIA: A JOURNAL OF THE NET YEARS > By McKenzie Wark > ISBN 1 86403 145 X > APPROX 250 PAGES > > *** > > DEBUNKING ECONOMICS: THE NAKED EMPEROR OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES > By Steve Keen > > Neo Liberal economics just doesn't add up! > > Opponents of neo-liberalism (known in Australia as economic rationalism) > might argue morality but they still assume the economics work. They're > wrong. The economics don't work. > > Debunking Economics by Steve Keen uses sound economics to show that the > supposedly watertight theories devised by economic rationalists are in > fact full of holes. What's more, the God of economic rationalism has > helped cause some of the world's major ills - the Russian crisis, the > Asian crisis, Japan's slump and maybe an impending Depression. This is a > timely book. Like most fads, economic rationalism has almost run its > course. Keen's illuminating arguments help demolish once and for all > this previously sacred cow. > > Published in conjunction with a web site providing further nourishment > for professional economists, teachers and students. > > DEBUNKING ECONOMICS: THE NAKED EMPEROR OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES > By Steve Keen > ISBN 1 86403 070 4 > > *** > > PROTEST AND GLOBALISATION: PROSPECTS FOR TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY > Edited by James Goodman > > Everything you need to know about the new global protest movement. > > Political protest has entered a radical new phase in the era of > heightened globalisation. A key issue is the strengthening of > cross-national consciousness via the internet and mass media - > ironically the same technolgies globalising capital. > > In Protest and Globalisation, editor James Goodman has brought together > an impressive group of writers to explore the challenges ? both in terms > of the practice and the theory, of politicising the global. They all > offer powerful insights into forming transnational strategies to > democratise globalisation. > Featuring James Goodman, Paul James, Ronnie Munck, Jose Johnston, Miriam > Solomon, Rosemary Sales, Ruth Phillips, Rowan Ireland, Leanne Reinke, > John Wiseman, Patricia Ranald, Heather Field, Damian Grenfell and Barry > Carr. > > PROTEST AND GLOBALISATION: PROSPECTS FOR TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY > Edited by Dr James Goodman > ISBN 1 86403 1204 > > *** > > QUEER CITY: GAY AND LESBIAN POLITICS IN SYDNEY > Edited by Craig Johnston and Paul van Reyk > > The real issues that are still left after the parade is over > > Religion, safety and violence, re-constructing the family, paedophilia, > Aboriginal-white reconciliation, multiculturalism, 'pink capitalism', > and feminism. This book will surprise the reader with the range of > issues gay and lesbians engage with. > > Queer City is a rich and varied collection of critical essays on gay and > lesbian politics by Sydney gay and lesbian activists that presents a > snapshot of a vibrant community working at the cutting edge of social > and cultural change in Australia. > > Featuring Julie McCrossin, Wendy Brady, Stephen Tomsen, Kirsty Machon, > Stephen Dunne, Anne Scahill, Ian MacNeill, Gary Dunne and photographer > Jamkie Dunbar. > > QUEER CITY: GAY AND LESBIAN POLITICS IN SYDNEY > Edited by Craig Johnston and Paul van Reyk > ISBN 1 86403 > > _______________________________________________________________ > Tony Moore Email: tmoore@sydney.socialchange.net.au > > Pluto Press Australia > 6A Nelson Street Tel: +61 (0) 2 9519 3299 > Annandale NSW 2038 Fax: +61 (0) 2 9519 8940 > Sydney, Australia WWW: http://socialchange.net.au/ > > Buy your Pluto Press books from http://socialchange.net.au/pluto/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- # rohrpost -- deutschsprachige Mailingliste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur # Info: majordomo@mikrolisten.de; msg: info rohrpost # kommerzielle Verwertung nur mit Erlaubnis der AutorInnen # Entsubskribieren: majordomo@mikrolisten.de, msg: unsubscribe rohrpost # Kontakt: owner-rohrpost@mikrolisten.de -- http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost