[csaa-forum] Feedback wanted on book project

[john whiteoak]

Dear all
This is my first posting on the list after several years of following
threads with interest, as time has permitted.  I am primarily an
historian of music and to a lesser extent of dance but my interest in
cultural theory has increased in recent years, especially though
assocation with popular music studies people.  I have been working on a
new book for several years now and hope to be finished next September.
This new study takes a very unusual perspective on 'Latin' influence on
music and dance in Australia before Australian 'multiculturalism-so
unusual in fact that I have taken the unconventional  step of posting a
synopsis of it on my website as way of explaining what the project is
and attracting some useful feedback.

If any on the list have a moment to look over the explanation and offer
some constructive criticism it would be very valuable indeed coming from
your cultural studies perspectives.  I certainly would not describe the
work as a contribution to postcolonialism but some aspects of it might,
in a curious way, relate to it-or against it depending on how you read
my intentions.    To see the outline go to my website www.ausmdr.com and
thereon  to the The Latin Tinge link.
Many thanks
John  Whiteoak

Research Associate: Monash School of Music
Home: whiteoak at hotkey.net.au