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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101501390090

ISBN-139781501390098

eBay Product ID (ePID)5058381700

Product Key Features

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFront Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn

Publication Year2023

SubjectTheater / Broadway & Musicals, History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / International, Individual Composer & Musician

TypeTextbook

AuthorMatthew Bannister

Subject AreaMusic, Performing Arts

Series33 1/3 Oceania Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.7 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-043232

ReviewsSongs From The Front Lawn is deserving a place on any serious bookcase dedicated to New Zealand music. It is thoughtful, analytical, provocative and a mostly enjoyable insight into one of our landmark groups., " Songs From The Front Lawn is deserving a place on any serious bookcase dedicated to New Zealand music. It is thoughtful, analytical, provocative and a mostly enjoyable insight into one of our landmark groups." - Graham Reid, Elsewhere "Bannister's book is a worthy addition to the library of books about NZ acts ... importantly, it's not just the telling of the duo's story, but a critical essay." - Gary Steel, Witchdoctor, " Songs From The Front Lawn is deserving a place on any serious bookcase dedicated to New Zealand music. It is thoughtful, analytical, provocative and a mostly enjoyable insight into one of our landmark groups." --Graham Reid, Elsewhere "Bannister's book is a worthy addition to the library of books about NZ acts ... importantly, it's not just the telling of the duo's story, but a critical essay." --Gary Steel, Witchdoctor "Compiles fresh interviews with Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and Jennifer Ward-Lealand and gives a great cultural context for The Front Lawn's multimedia weirdness popping up like a pimple on the unexpectant face of late-80s New Zealand." --Simon Sweetman, Sounds Good!

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal782.421640993

Table Of ContentList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Background 2. The Front Lawn 3. The Album 4. The Aftermath Notes Index

SynopsisThe Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and film. Their debut album Songs from The Front Lawn (1989) distilled McGlashan and Sinclair's theatrical stage show and their groundbreaking short films, Walkshort and The Lounge Bar , while also thrusting the band into the burgeoning New Zealand indie scene. The album is a snapshot of '80s New Zealand, a turbulent, creative period for indie music, indie film and musical theatre, celebrating local identity in new ways. Starting with a social and cultural background of New Zealand in the late 1970s, the book covers McGlashan and Sinclair's upbringing on Auckland's North Shore, early artistic influences and overseas experiences leading to the formation of the group. Much attention is paid to the duo's philosophy, early performances, the process of recording the album - including The Front Lawn's collaboration with Wellington avant-garde/cabaret group Six Volts and the addition of Jennifer Ward-Lealand as the group's third member - and analysis of each of the album's 10 songs. In parting, Matthew Bannister discusses the group's second and final album, More Songs from The Front Lawn , as well as the individual members' subsequent artistic careers

LC Classification NumberML421.F76B35 2023