Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to ... more There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'.
This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century.
Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part ... more Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part of the cosmopolitan life style of the Qantas flight hostesses. The Flight Attendant’s Shoe is the story of the Qantas uniforms and the uniforms of other airlines. It is a story about etiquette and protocol, about nationalism and internationalism, and the way the Australian fashion industry and international designers such as Emilio Pucci and Yves Saint Laurent created a range of designs for flight crew, from khaki military style, to burnt-orange miniskirts and on to the Indigenous boomerang print of the Morrissey uniform. Stitching together fashion history, social history and industrial history, this book celebrates an era when flying was truly glamorous.
Abstract The combination of new technology facilitating international travel, along with postwar ... more Abstract The combination of new technology facilitating international travel, along with postwar prosperity and modernist aesthetics led to the expansion of a relatively new profession for young women: the flight hostess (later named flight attendant). At one time a profession as glamorous as modeling, today there are hundreds of thousands of uniformed women in movement around the world branding international and domestic airlines as corporate/national identities. Certain structured combinations of items define the paradigm of such uniforms, with particular variations that respond to keeping up a national image in cosmopolitan contexts. This article uses the Qantas flight hostess uniforms as an example to signal both its practicality and its articulation of a new cosmopolitan modernism. Being modern in this respect also meant “talking a uniform language” and responding to the constraints of comfort and safety.
Special issue on Fashion Management In recent years, the topic of fashion and dress has exploded ... more Special issue on Fashion Management In recent years, the topic of fashion and dress has exploded on the international academic stage. Australia has not been immune from this trend and the study of fashion and dress has proliferated across the country in many disciplines and fields of study. This issue pays tribute to the growth of fashion theory in Australia by presenting a range of perspectives on fashion and dress from “down under.” While the focus of contributors is on the distinctiveness of fashion cultures in Australia, broader issues about establishing identities of nationalism through dress underpin the articles. In what ways is fashion distinctively Australian—and conversely, “un-Australian”? Is the issue of national identity in fashion and dress still relevant in the global context
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities, 2017
This chapter traces the history of Swan Hill's Shakespeare Festival to explore questions abou... more This chapter traces the history of Swan Hill's Shakespeare Festival to explore questions about the cultural life of Australian country towns in the mid-twentieth century and the complex role and meaning of the arts in regional and national community building. The extraordinary level of participation during the festival's early years both shows how widely ideas about modernity and rural progress circulated in the 1950s and 1960s and illustrates the contribution of culture and the arts in strengthening a community and instilling values of citizenship. A comprehensive survey of Victorian country towns conducted by University of Melbourne agricultural researchers Alan and Jean McIntyre during 1941 and 1942 documented the range of organised cultural activities and amenities available to country dwellers. Card parties, dances and sporting events were held regularly across most of the state
Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part ... more Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part of the cosmopolitan life style of the Qantas flight hostesses. The Flight Attendant’s Shoe is the story of the Qantas uniforms and the uniforms of other airlines. It is a story about etiquette and protocol, about nationalism and internationalism, and the way the Australian fashion industry and international designers such as Emilio Pucci and Yves Saint Laurent created a range of designs for flight crew, from khaki military style, to burnt-orange miniskirts and on to the Indigenous boomerang print of the Morrissey uniform. Stitching together fashion history, social history and industrial history, this book celebrates an era when flying was truly glamorous.
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to ... more There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also ...
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to ... more There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'.
This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century.
Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part ... more Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part of the cosmopolitan life style of the Qantas flight hostesses. The Flight Attendant’s Shoe is the story of the Qantas uniforms and the uniforms of other airlines. It is a story about etiquette and protocol, about nationalism and internationalism, and the way the Australian fashion industry and international designers such as Emilio Pucci and Yves Saint Laurent created a range of designs for flight crew, from khaki military style, to burnt-orange miniskirts and on to the Indigenous boomerang print of the Morrissey uniform. Stitching together fashion history, social history and industrial history, this book celebrates an era when flying was truly glamorous.
Abstract The combination of new technology facilitating international travel, along with postwar ... more Abstract The combination of new technology facilitating international travel, along with postwar prosperity and modernist aesthetics led to the expansion of a relatively new profession for young women: the flight hostess (later named flight attendant). At one time a profession as glamorous as modeling, today there are hundreds of thousands of uniformed women in movement around the world branding international and domestic airlines as corporate/national identities. Certain structured combinations of items define the paradigm of such uniforms, with particular variations that respond to keeping up a national image in cosmopolitan contexts. This article uses the Qantas flight hostess uniforms as an example to signal both its practicality and its articulation of a new cosmopolitan modernism. Being modern in this respect also meant “talking a uniform language” and responding to the constraints of comfort and safety.
Special issue on Fashion Management In recent years, the topic of fashion and dress has exploded ... more Special issue on Fashion Management In recent years, the topic of fashion and dress has exploded on the international academic stage. Australia has not been immune from this trend and the study of fashion and dress has proliferated across the country in many disciplines and fields of study. This issue pays tribute to the growth of fashion theory in Australia by presenting a range of perspectives on fashion and dress from “down under.” While the focus of contributors is on the distinctiveness of fashion cultures in Australia, broader issues about establishing identities of nationalism through dress underpin the articles. In what ways is fashion distinctively Australian—and conversely, “un-Australian”? Is the issue of national identity in fashion and dress still relevant in the global context
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities, 2017
This chapter traces the history of Swan Hill's Shakespeare Festival to explore questions abou... more This chapter traces the history of Swan Hill's Shakespeare Festival to explore questions about the cultural life of Australian country towns in the mid-twentieth century and the complex role and meaning of the arts in regional and national community building. The extraordinary level of participation during the festival's early years both shows how widely ideas about modernity and rural progress circulated in the 1950s and 1960s and illustrates the contribution of culture and the arts in strengthening a community and instilling values of citizenship. A comprehensive survey of Victorian country towns conducted by University of Melbourne agricultural researchers Alan and Jean McIntyre during 1941 and 1942 documented the range of organised cultural activities and amenities available to country dwellers. Card parties, dances and sporting events were held regularly across most of the state
Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part ... more Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part of the cosmopolitan life style of the Qantas flight hostesses. The Flight Attendant’s Shoe is the story of the Qantas uniforms and the uniforms of other airlines. It is a story about etiquette and protocol, about nationalism and internationalism, and the way the Australian fashion industry and international designers such as Emilio Pucci and Yves Saint Laurent created a range of designs for flight crew, from khaki military style, to burnt-orange miniskirts and on to the Indigenous boomerang print of the Morrissey uniform. Stitching together fashion history, social history and industrial history, this book celebrates an era when flying was truly glamorous.
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to ... more There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also ...
Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)%%%%This thesis maps the sixty year history of the Qantas flight attenda... more Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)%%%%This thesis maps the sixty year history of the Qantas flight attendants’ uniform. It figures the Qantas uniform as a prism through which to explore a history of modern Australian fashion and design, and the social and cultural web that gives life to the image of the Qantas flight attendant, rather than a history of the airline itself. Qantas, with its humble origins in the rural town of Longreach, Queensland, became the national carrier when it combined interests with Britain’s Imperial Airways to form Qantas Empire Airways in 1934. From the time the first female Qantas flight hostess appeared on board in 1948, the aircraft aisle became a 'catwalk for the image-makers'. It is particularly important to the role of the flight hostess, later the flight attendant, that the dress of the cabin crew, although clearly defined as uniforms, also responded to current fashion from the beginning of this history. Although the story of Qantas has been well docu...
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This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century.
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This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century.
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