Culture
Alternative labels
Cultural expression
Report
Creative boom: a report into four sectors of strength and opportunity in the arts
The Arts Industry Council of SA (AICSA) commissioned this report to explore how South Australia’s strengths in the arts and cultural industries could further support the state’s economic agenda.
Thesis
Meaning and sensemaking in high performance sport: managing change in the high performance unit of a national sport organisation
Creating and regulating high performing cultures has emerged as a critical function of high performance sport management, however there is limited theoretical or practical clarity surrounding these organisational phenomena and processes (Cruickshank & Collins, 2013; Cruickshank et al., 2014; Fletcher & Arnold, 2011; Frontiera, 2010; Sotiriadou, 2013).
Report
Aboriginal cultural heritage protection: proposed reforms
Presents a summary of the existing laws in NSW, the proposed reforms, and some selected stakeholder views.
Thesis
Mavae and Tofiga: spatial exposition of the Samoan cosmogony and architecture
How is space constituted and made manifest in the cultural and philosophical context of Samoan society? And how can a primordial concept of space be constituted in the architecture of the fale (house) and then reconstituted as a cultural phenomenon, stretching from pre-contact times in Samoa to the present, in the diaspora? This study undertakes...
Book
The First Fleet piano: a musician’s view. Volume one
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were...