Andrew Wright Hurley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3880993 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Wright Hurley |
| PRENOMES | Andrew Wright |
| SOBRENOME | Hurley |
| ASSINATURA | HURLEY A W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6717-3537 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Looking Ahead with the New International Studies
As I write this, the world seems to be in a more precarious position than it was 30 years ago, when the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was established. In 1994, the Cold War appeared to have come to an end. That year an Accord was signed between Israel and Palestine, and Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize. The discourse around global climate crisis …
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A Great First Cause in Colonisation’
Historical acoustemology allows us to contemplate practices and meanings of non-Indigenous listening in Central Australia and determine how they aligned with processes of settlement. In the 1930s, a new form of listening emerged among remote non-Indigenous women. Modern communities of female transceiver-listeners used radio for two-way communication and networking, and feminist broadcasters quickly picked up the model, undermining pessimistic ana…
Noisy silences
Silence is a powerful concept that many read in stark metaphorical, binarised and/or ahistorical terms. By contrast, sound historians can show how metaphors like silence take on specific historical power, but elide complexity in the heard world, and how they change. This article uses Robyn Davidson’s popular travelogue, Tracks (1980), to investigate how the non-Indigenous meanings of the iconic motif of Central Australian silence were shifting in…
Eerie Sounds, Then and Now
Mid-century non-Indigenous visitors to Central Australia such as the naturalist Hedley Finlayson (author of The Red Centre, 1935) and the journalist-cum-conservationist Arthur Groom (author of I Saw a Strange Land, 1950) wrote popular works that overturned prejudices about a “dead heart” and encouraged subsequent visitors and tourists. Yet they were often unsettled by eerie sounds. This article uses Mark Fisher’s notion of eeriness, as well as li…
Reports, silences and repercussion
One of the most mythologised Australian explorers is the Prussian-born Ludwig Leichhardt, who famously ‘disappeared’ in 1848. The only seemingly authenticated relic from his final journey is a gunplate, purchased by the National Museum of Australia in 2006. In a context conditioned by the Australian History Wars, the Museum presents the plate in singularising, largely heroicising fashion and occludes the uses to which the gun was once put. Howeve…
Priscilla Layne. White Rebels in Black
Whistling the Death March? Listening in to the Acoustics of Ludwig Leichhardt's Australian Exploration
Scholars considering the acoustics of exploration have focused on how explorers heard Australian space in terms of silence, to argue this silenced Indigenous presence, or that stillness, was incongruous with how a place to be colonised should sound. I focus on the acoustically attuned Ludwig Leichhardt, a science-poet indebted to the Enlightenment, but also engaged with the German Romantic legacy. The manifold acoustic dimensions of expeditioning…
Popular Music, Memory, and Aestheticized Historiography in a Minor Key
Music, memory, and historicity relate to each other at a number of levels. I use Einstürzende Neubauten’s Lament (2014) to think through possibilities of musically engaging with history and memory, and to question what functions this particular minor-key musical memory of World War I fulfils. Music such as Lament offers a multimodal connection with the past and can generate in listeners a strong historical sensation. It can thereby activate the l…
Soundtracking Germany
Melanie Schiller has made an important contribution to the discipline of popular music studies, and to our understanding of German Zeitgeschichte in her book, Soundtracking Germany. She explains how the national has been neglected by the field of popular music studies, which is more interested in either the local or subcultural, or conversely in much larger flows involved in the globalization of the popular music industry. Her five chronologicall…
Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement
The role of German actors in European colonialisms, especially before the foundation of the German nation state in 1871 and Germany’s entry into imperialism proper with the so-called protectorates
How 'Afro-Americanophilia' became Polyphilia
This article contributes to our understanding of the continuities and disconnects in the way that ‘race,’ and in particular African-American culture, were conceived of in the long postwar era in West Germany. It does so by examining some salient racial aspects in the writings and production activities of West-German ‘jazz pope,’ Joachim-Ernst Berendt, between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s. I demonstrate that the late 1960s brought about a shar…
German-Indigenous musical flows at Ntaria in the 1960s
This article focuses on aspects of Indigenous musical life in the 1960s at and around Ntaria (formerly Hermannsburg) in Central Australia, and isolates one flow between German missionary sources and the Indigenous musical culture—the Christmas carol ‘Stille Nacht’ (aka ‘Silent Night’), which became ‘Inguwa inturtai’, now also known as ‘Hymn 44’. I explore some of the meanings that are invested in a particularly striking yet ambiguous deployment o…
No Fixed Address, but currently in East Berlin
In his work on multidirectional memory, Michael Rothberg makes the point that “[a]lthough it is difficult to grasp today [...] communism provided one of the discursive spheres [...] in which the articulation of genocide and colonialism could first be attempted.” In this article, I explore the Indigenous reggae-rock band No Fixed Address’s performance, just after Australia Day 1988, at the East German Festival of Political Song, one of the surpris…
Introduction
From a ‘provincial’ and (hopefully) self-aware European perspective, it is clear that cultural forms or practices that originated among African Americans have, beyond their value to African Americans themselves and people elsewhere, contributed tremendously to life on the European continent. Those contributions include everything from the political imaginaries of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, through philosophical thought, to litera…
Survey Essay 1. Periodizing and Historicizing German Afro-Americanophilia
In this first essay, we delve into significant moments in the history (and pre-history) of twentieth century Afro-Americanophilia in Germany. We establish a periodisation stretching from the nineteenth century until the mid-1960s (from which point our second essay will continue), and take in the pre-colonial, the colonial, the Weimar, the Nazi; and the post-war eras. We draw out some of the particularly significant moments, ruptures, and continui…
The greatest son of our Heimat ”
The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848) in the National Socialist era when officials, journalists, educators and writers, spurred by the double anniversary of the explorer's 125th birthday and the 90th anniversary of his disappearance, began to re-imagine the explorer's life and fate in the light of the ideological imperatives of the day. Our analysis of this period pays particular attention to how these reima…
Establishing Minimal Techno as Soundtrack to the Creative City
This article argues that Hannes Stöhr’s Berlin Calling (2008), one of the first feature film treatments of Berlin’s techno scene, contributes to the mythification of contemporary Berlin as an exciting, “culturepreneurial,” creative city. Twenty years after the emergence of Berlin’s electronic music scene, the film offers a conciliatory reading of that scene, which is consistent with the contribution that club culture and the notion of the creativ…
Leichhardt's bust, or how the explorer was rediscovered during the Cold War
In 1988, the long-lost Ludwig Leichhardt returned to Sydney, not once but three times over, and via an odd Cold War route: his doppelganger great-great-grand nephew, also called Ludwig, travelled from East Germany to participate in a conference; the ‘International Friendship League’ presented a plaque to the City of Leichhardt; and a bust, for which Ludwig Jr had sat as model, was presented to Australia as a Bicentennial gift. If the bust is an u…
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Leichhardt's bust, or how the explorer was rediscovered during the Cold War
In 1988, the long-lost Ludwig Leichhardt returned to Sydney, not once but three times over, and via an odd Cold War route: his doppelganger great-great-grand nephew, also called Ludwig, travelled from East Germany to participate in a conference; the ‘International Friendship League’ presented a plaque to the City of Leichhardt; and a bust, for which Ludwig Jr had sat as model, was presented to Australia as a Bicentennial gift. If the bust is an u…
How 'Afro-Americanophilia' became Polyphilia
This article contributes to our understanding of the continuities and disconnects in the way that ‘race,’ and in particular African-American culture, were conceived of in the long postwar era in West Germany. It does so by examining some salient racial aspects in the writings and production activities of West-German ‘jazz pope,’ Joachim-Ernst Berendt, between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s. I demonstrate that the late 1960s brought about a shar…
German-Indigenous musical flows at Ntaria in the 1960s
This article focuses on aspects of Indigenous musical life in the 1960s at and around Ntaria (formerly Hermannsburg) in Central Australia, and isolates one flow between German missionary sources and the Indigenous musical culture—the Christmas carol ‘Stille Nacht’ (aka ‘Silent Night’), which became ‘Inguwa inturtai’, now also known as ‘Hymn 44’. I explore some of the meanings that are invested in a particularly striking yet ambiguous deployment o…
No Fixed Address, but currently in East Berlin
In his work on multidirectional memory, Michael Rothberg makes the point that “[a]lthough it is difficult to grasp today [...] communism provided one of the discursive spheres [...] in which the articulation of genocide and colonialism could first be attempted.” In this article, I explore the Indigenous reggae-rock band No Fixed Address’s performance, just after Australia Day 1988, at the East German Festival of Political Song, one of the surpris…
Introduction
From a ‘provincial’ and (hopefully) self-aware European perspective, it is clear that cultural forms or practices that originated among African Americans have, beyond their value to African Americans themselves and people elsewhere, contributed tremendously to life on the European continent. Those contributions include everything from the political imaginaries of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, through philosophical thought, to litera…
Survey Essay 1. Periodizing and Historicizing German Afro-Americanophilia
In this first essay, we delve into significant moments in the history (and pre-history) of twentieth century Afro-Americanophilia in Germany. We establish a periodisation stretching from the nineteenth century until the mid-1960s (from which point our second essay will continue), and take in the pre-colonial, the colonial, the Weimar, the Nazi; and the post-war eras. We draw out some of the particularly significant moments, ruptures, and continui…
The greatest son of our Heimat ”
The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–1848) in the National Socialist era when officials, journalists, educators and writers, spurred by the double anniversary of the explorer's 125th birthday and the 90th anniversary of his disappearance, began to re-imagine the explorer's life and fate in the light of the ideological imperatives of the day. Our analysis of this period pays particular attention to how these reima…
Establishing Minimal Techno as Soundtrack to the Creative City
This article argues that Hannes Stöhr’s Berlin Calling (2008), one of the first feature film treatments of Berlin’s techno scene, contributes to the mythification of contemporary Berlin as an exciting, “culturepreneurial,” creative city. Twenty years after the emergence of Berlin’s electronic music scene, the film offers a conciliatory reading of that scene, which is consistent with the contribution that club culture and the notion of the creativ…
Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement
The role of German actors in European colonialisms, especially before the foundation of the German nation state in 1871 and Germany’s entry into imperialism proper with the so-called protectorates
Whistling the Death March? Listening in to the Acoustics of Ludwig Leichhardt's Australian Exploration
Scholars considering the acoustics of exploration have focused on how explorers heard Australian space in terms of silence, to argue this silenced Indigenous presence, or that stillness, was incongruous with how a place to be colonised should sound. I focus on the acoustically attuned Ludwig Leichhardt, a science-poet indebted to the Enlightenment, but also engaged with the German Romantic legacy. The manifold acoustic dimensions of expeditioning…
Popular Music, Memory, and Aestheticized Historiography in a Minor Key
Music, memory, and historicity relate to each other at a number of levels. I use Einstürzende Neubauten’s Lament (2014) to think through possibilities of musically engaging with history and memory, and to question what functions this particular minor-key musical memory of World War I fulfils. Music such as Lament offers a multimodal connection with the past and can generate in listeners a strong historical sensation. It can thereby activate the l…
Soundtracking Germany
Melanie Schiller has made an important contribution to the discipline of popular music studies, and to our understanding of German Zeitgeschichte in her book, Soundtracking Germany. She explains how the national has been neglected by the field of popular music studies, which is more interested in either the local or subcultural, or conversely in much larger flows involved in the globalization of the popular music industry. Her five chronologicall…
Reports, silences and repercussion
One of the most mythologised Australian explorers is the Prussian-born Ludwig Leichhardt, who famously ‘disappeared’ in 1848. The only seemingly authenticated relic from his final journey is a gunplate, purchased by the National Museum of Australia in 2006. In a context conditioned by the Australian History Wars, the Museum presents the plate in singularising, largely heroicising fashion and occludes the uses to which the gun was once put. Howeve…
Priscilla Layne. White Rebels in Black
Noisy silences
Silence is a powerful concept that many read in stark metaphorical, binarised and/or ahistorical terms. By contrast, sound historians can show how metaphors like silence take on specific historical power, but elide complexity in the heard world, and how they change. This article uses Robyn Davidson’s popular travelogue, Tracks (1980), to investigate how the non-Indigenous meanings of the iconic motif of Central Australian silence were shifting in…
Eerie Sounds, Then and Now
Mid-century non-Indigenous visitors to Central Australia such as the naturalist Hedley Finlayson (author of The Red Centre, 1935) and the journalist-cum-conservationist Arthur Groom (author of I Saw a Strange Land, 1950) wrote popular works that overturned prejudices about a “dead heart” and encouraged subsequent visitors and tourists. Yet they were often unsettled by eerie sounds. This article uses Mark Fisher’s notion of eeriness, as well as li…
A Great First Cause in Colonisation’
Historical acoustemology allows us to contemplate practices and meanings of non-Indigenous listening in Central Australia and determine how they aligned with processes of settlement. In the 1930s, a new form of listening emerged among remote non-Indigenous women. Modern communities of female transceiver-listeners used radio for two-way communication and networking, and feminist broadcasters quickly picked up the model, undermining pessimistic ana…
Looking Ahead with the New International Studies
As I write this, the world seems to be in a more precarious position than it was 30 years ago, when the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was established. In 1994, the Cold War appeared to have come to an end. That year an Accord was signed between Israel and Palestine, and Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize. The discourse around global climate crisis …
Cool
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