[rohrpost] Screening Buried Country on Thursday Oct. 19th in Frankfurt

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

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/
>
>
>



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