2AY Albury (Australia) 128
2BL Sydney (Australia) 139-140
2CA Canberra (Australia) 129
Night Owls’ Club 129
2CH Sydney (Australia) 126, 127, 130
2HD Newcastle (Australia) 124
2GB Sydney (Australia) 125, 127-128, 130
Bluebirds Club 128
Charity Board 128
Happiness Club 127, 128, 130
managing director 128
2GF Grafton (Australia) 128
Smile Club 128
2GZ Orange (Australia) 129
Junior Country Service Club 129
2MW Murwillumbah (Australia) 124
2SM Sydney (Australia) 125
2UE Sydney (Australia) 125, 129
Call to Youth Club 129
2UW Sydney (Australia) 126, 127
3AW Melbourne (Australia) 129, 130
Birmacley Pet Club 130
Breakfast Club 129
Chatterbox Corner Chums 129, 130
3BO Bendigo (Australia) 128
3KZ Melbourne (Australia) 130
3SH Swan Hill (Australia) 129
Women’s Club 129
3UL Warragul (Australia) 129
Breakfast Club 129
3UZ Melbourne (Australia) 130
Tailwaggers’ Pet Club 130
3XY Melbourne (Australia) 129
Fisherman’s Club 129
3YB Warrnambool (Australia) 129
breakfast Club 129
4CA Cairns (Australia) 128
4TO Townsville (Australia) 129
Commander Singing Club 129
4WK Warwick (Australia) 124
5DN Adelaide (Australia) 129
Kipling Boys’ Club 129
6AM Northam (Australia) 124
6ML Cheerio Club 127
6PM Perth (Australia) 124
7EX Launceston (Australia) 129
Gardening League 129
7HO Hobart (Australia) 129
Women’s Association 129
7LA Launceston (Australia) 129
Women’s Association 129
7QT Queenstown (Australia) 130
Chums’ Club 130
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
67, 92, 93, 94, 107, 124, 140
voice 92, 93, 94
ABC Weekly 92, 93
AWA (Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia))
128
Abbott, Edwin (‘A Square’) 41
Abbotsleigh (Sydney) 90
Aborigines (Australian) 44, 83
accent 44
words from 83
Accent 1, 3, 4, 37, 39, 42, 44, 45, 54, 55, 61,
63, 69, 73, 74, 76, 80, 83-111, 119, 152
American 73, 119, 152
Australian 1, 3, 4, 44, 45, 61, 73, 83-96
Aboriginal 44
Adelaide (South Australia) 45, 73
approval of 88, 92, 94, 99, 101
broad 3, 106, 107, 108
colonial twang 106
criticism of 98
cultivated 3, 95, 97, 106-107, 108
cultured 54, 73, 80
detestable snuffle 84
diphthongs 3, 90, 102, 103, 104-107
drawl 44, 99, 101, 102
educated 54, 76, 86, 106
flatness 87, 99
foundation 3, 99, 100, 108
general 3, 106, 107, 108
history of 97-111
lazy 83, 84, 85, 94
legitimate 1, 83
and masculinity 54, 91, 94-95
Melbourne (Victoria) 45, 73, 74
nasal 44, 85, 93, 98, 100
pleasant 83, 84, 86, 89, 92, 93, 97
psychological inhibition 94
pure 1, 3, 69, 89, 99, 100, 101,
105, 106, 152
rural 60, 107
scholarly study of 106
self-confident 108
soft 54, 55, 84
South Australian 37, 39, 42, 44, 85
standardised pronunciation 88
vowels 3, 86, 93, 101, 102, 103,
104, 105, 106, 107
British 73, 76, 79, 83, 87, 88, 97, 101,
105, 107
class 61, 86, 100, 104
county 86
Devonshire (UK) 100
foreign 49, 77
invented 76, 79
Kentish (UK) 105
Northumberland (UK) 105
‘pure’ 3, 99, 101, 105, 152
regional 3, 43, 45, 73, 74, 76, 77, 79
Scots 44, 77, 97, 100, 102
Somersetshire (UK) 100
ultra-British 73
Yorkshire (UK) 45, 97, 100
accordions 16
acoustics 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 116, 117, 118, 120
etiquette 10
acting 66, 75, 78
schools 75, 78
teachers 66
actors 3, 63, 64, 66, 73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 98
Australian-born 98
English 98
female 79
imported 98
ada 86
Adelaide (South Australia) 45, 73, 79, 129,
147
advertising 108, 118, 123, 141, 148
advice columns 90
Africa 29, 43, 79
African-American 28-30
Age (Melbourne, Australia) 53, 55, 69
airmail 123
Allan and Company 140
Allsop, Raymond Cottam 138, 139, 140,
141, 147, 153,
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) (AWA)
124
American Laboratory Theatre 78
American Phonofilms 135
Americanisation 29, 133, 152-153
Americanisms 14
American(s) 4, 11, 15, 36, 51, 74, 97, 98,
119, 154
business 4, 23, 133-154
Clog Dancers 31
film 1, 4, 74, 78-80, 127, 133-154
and jazz 28-30
and guns 11, 15
manhood 50-51
maps of 43
mid-west 76
oratory 51-52
power of 4, 137-138, 153
and recitation 61-63, 65
republic 50-51
revolution 36
rise of 32
speech 1, 3, 10, 14, 45, 52, 73-80, 85, 94,
97-101
twang 98, 152
strength of 50
technology 4, 133-154
and tranquility 16
amplifiers 133, 139, 140
Anbruch 30
Anderson, Benedict 35
Anderson, Hugh 63
Anderson, Judith 79
anti-slavery campaigners 50
The Applause Reciter 63
Argus (Melbourne, Australia) 85, 130
Armidale (Australia) 39
Arnold, Harold 24, 25
The Art of Speaking 68
The Art of Speech: A Handbook of Elocution 88
Ascham School (Sydney, Australia) 75
Astorex 145
Atkinson, Alan 1, 2
atomisation 23, 25, 31
Auckland (New Zealand) 147
audio-internet 117
audiences 4, 26, 64, 65, 70, 79, 116, 120,
125, 130
Auditone 137, 144, 145, 147, 148, 153
auditory 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 29, 63, 87
‘Auntie Goodie’ (Goodie Reeves) 125
‘Auntie Val’ (Muriel Valli) 128
aural 2, 7, 10, 11
aural time 2, 7
Australasian Films Ltd 137
Australia(s)
alternative 8
visitors to 9, 11, 13, 84
Australia 83
Australian Encyclopedia 15
Australian Facts and Prospects 98
The Australian Favourite Reciter 63
Australian Musical News 69
The Australian National Dictionary:
A Dictionary of Australianisms on
Historical Principles 108
Australian Natives Association (ANA) 35,
Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary 107
Australian Pronunciation: A Handbook for
the Teaching of English in Australia 97
Australianness 3, 83, 97
Australians
independent manhood of 50
inferiority complex of 95
locally born 84
national character 4, 95
vernacular culture of 97, 107
Australia’s Amateur Hour 126
Australtone 137, 140-142, 145, 148, 151,
153
authenticity 29, 30
automobile 16, 19, 22, 24
autonomy 10, 11
aviation 124
The Awful Australian 98
Babel 23
Babel 30
Badham, Rev. Charles 74
Baeyertz, C. N. 87
Bagehot, Walter 52
Bailey, Margaret 75
Baker, Josephine 29
Balfour, Arthur 54
Ballad, sentimental 64
Ballarat 9, 14, 84, 105
Balliett, Whitney 120
Banks, Norman 125
Bannerman, Sir Campbell 51
Barton, Edmund 35
Bathurst (Australia) 39
Beaucaire 145
Bega 38
Being a Chum was Fun 130
Bell, Clive 29, 30
bells 1, 23, 24
Bell’s Standard Elocutionist 62, 68
Benét, William Rose 60
Benjamin, Walter 51, 24
Bennett, A. E. 128
Bennett, George 99, 101, 105
Berlin (Germany) 2, 20, 23, 25, 29, 75
Berlin Alexanderplatz 23
Berlin, Irving 28
Berman, Marshall 123
Bernard, J. 106
Bert Cross and Arthur Smith’s Cinesound
sound-on-film system 146
Betts, Edward Lewis 142, 153-154
George 142, 153-154
Frederick 142, 153-154
Between Ourselves 125
Billboard 3, 73, 74, 75
Besant, Annie 54
Bingen on the Rhine 62
birds 8, 29
Birkbeck College (London, UK) 89
Birmingham, Agnes 76
Birrell, Bob 35
Blair, David 108
Blanchett, Cate 78
‘The Blue-Black Rose’ 23
Bligh, Governor 36
Board, Ruby W. 97
Boldrewood, Rolf 41, 98
Boleslavsky, Richard 78
Bombay (India) 88
books 38, 43, 62, 63, 67, 78, 104, 105, 114,
128
Boston (USA) 52, 78
Boston Transcript 74
Bourne, Randolph 77
Bourdieu, Pierre 32
Bradman, Don 129
Bragg, Melvyn 45
Braque, Georges 29
Bratton, J. S. 60, 61, 64, 65
Bridson, D. G. 67
Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) 45, 147
Britain, upper class 76, 79
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) 25, 92,
93, 125
British colonies 79
British Empire 3, 36, 61, 63, 84
British Phonofilms 135
The Broad Arrow 100
broadcasting
in Australia 93, 123-132
political 119
Broadcasters-Sydney Ltd 139
Broadway (New York City) 73, 77, 78, 79
Broadway Theatres (Australia) 144
Bromby, Dr 52
Brookes, E. Stanley 88
Brown, John Mason 78
Browne, Professor G. S. 85
Buckley and Nunn Ltd 140
Bulletin (Australia) 59, 61, 84, 86
The Bulletin Book of Humorous Verses and
Recitations 63
The Bulletin Reciter 63
Burckhardt, Jacob 117
bureaucracy 123
Burgh, James 68
Burgan, Thomas 37
bush, vocabulary (Australia) 83
bushman (Australia) 61, 99
business
American 4, 23, 133-154
global 133
local 4, 133, 153
Byron, Lord 66
Calcutta (India) 86, 89
California (USA) 14
Cambridge, Duke of 53
Campbell, Lawrence 66, 68
Campsie (New South Wales, Australia) 128
Canada 41, 49
capitalism
internationalisation of 114, 117
rise of 30
Carnegie Institute of Technology 78
Carruthers, J. H. 43
censorship 152, 153
Ceylon 128
Chakrabarty, Dipesh 85
Chaplin, Charlie 22
change
cultural 4-5, 61, 79-80, 114-120, 152
social 16, 20, 67
technological 5, 152
character sketches 59, 64
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era
of High Capitalism 21
Cheer-Up 128
‘Cheerio Man’ (Captain A. C. C. Stevens)
125
Chesterton, George 116
China 77, 99
Chion, Michel 120
Chisholm, A. R. 75
choice 10, 63, 94, 134, 148
Churchill, William 98
cinema(s)
American mainstream 78
industry 4, 133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 141,
144, 145, 152, 153
wiring for sound 141, 144
Cinesound 146, 147
citizenship
Australian 11
imperial 10, 62
Citroën factory 1, 22, 23
city 19, 20, 21, 23, 28, 30, 32, 53, 59, 61,
74, 113, 124, 133, 135, 144, 147
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy 117
Clacy, Ellen 8
Clara Morison 13
Clark, Alexander 44, 45
class
division 86
educated 93
middle 60, 61, 65, 83, 85, 93, 116, 128
mobility 61
underclasses 115, 116
Clunies Ross, Hannah (nee Tilley) 74
Clunies Ross, Ian 74
Cockney 31, 44, 85, 88, 97, 98, 100, 101,
102, 104
Cohan, George M. 65
Coldbath Fields Prison 116
Coldwell-Smith, Charles (‘Uncle Col’) 128
Cole’s Book Arcade 63
Colgate-Palmolive Radio Unit 65
College of Fine Arts (Sydney Australia) 120
Collins, Diane, 2, 7-18, 134
Collins, Philip 64
Colonial Conference, London (UK) 49, 50,
52, 56
Colonial Office (UK) 50, 51, 56, 57
colonial twang 106
Columbia University (New York City) 3, 74,
75, 78
combustion engine 2
The Commonwealth of Speech 1
community, ‘imagined’ 35, 37, 41, 45,
83-84, 115
Connor, Steven 1
Conquergood, Dwight 60
consumption 7, 10, 62
conversation 10, 26, 86, 89, 90, 91
convicts 16, 55, 83, 94, 116
Conway, Jill Ker 90
The Coo-ee Reciter 63
Corbin, Alain 1
Cornish (UK) 44, 102
Cornish School (Seattle, USA) 78
Correct English, Public Speaking, Elocution,
Voice Production 87
cosmopolitanism 13, 25, 28
Cournos, John 30
Cox, Bertram 51
Cox, Felicity 106, 107
Craig, W. 13
Critical Pronouncing Dictionary 105
Crosby, Bing 120
Crow, J. Sutton 85
cultural capital 62, 114, 117
cringe 63
critics 7
diversity 12, 120
culture, mass 36, 70
Cunningham, Peter 98
Curlewis, A. C. 44
curriculum 37, 42, 90
Daggett, Windsor P. 3, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77,
78, 79
Studio 78
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 123
Dalwood Health Home for Children 128
Damousi, Joy 1-2, 3, 83-96
dancing 29, 128
Davey, Jack 129
De Forest Phonofilms 135, 136, 144
De Witt, Marguerite 76, 77
Deacon, Desley 3, 73-82
Deakin, Alfred
‘Notebooks’ 52
speech-making 49, 50, 51, 56, 57
Debating Club 52
Delbridge, Arthur 106
democracy 2, 10, 12, 13, 20, 39
democratisation 10, 32, 117, 118
demographic upheavals 123
Dening, Greg 1
Dennis, C. J. 62, 107
dependency, colonial 50, 51, 56, 57
deportment 88, 90
Depression, Great 16, 119, 125, 133, 144
Desprez, Frank 59
Derain 29
desire 8, 10, 29, 32, 50, 57, 61, 69, 107
Desmond, Valerie 98
dialect
class 73
‘la-de-da’ Britisher 73
regional 73, 74, 76
ultra-British 73
Dickens, Charles 64
diction
of the labouring classes 115
polished 86
Die literarische Welt 29
difference 2, 13, 23, 25, 45, 73, 86, 92, 102,
103, 127
Diggers (gold) 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
(war) 107
digital technology 120
Dilke, Sir Charles 53
‘direct method’ 75, 76
disorder 10, 13, 148
distance
and aviation 124
and radio 124
Dixon, James 99, 101, 105
Döblin, Alfred 23
Doctor Faustus 114
documents 2, 7
dogs 8, 11
Dominions Office 56
Donald, James 2, 19-34
Dowling Apparatus 145
Doyle, Stuart 137
Drake’s Drum 61
drawl
Australian 44, 99, 101, 102
Devonshire 100
The Dream of Eugene Aram 66
Dubbo (New South Wales, Australia) 75
Dublin (Ireland) 27
Duff, M. E. Grant 53
Dunne, John 125, 126
Eagleton, Terry 61
Early English Text Society 104
East Indies 77
Eclectics Society 52
Education Act of 1871, UK 116
Edgerton, Elizabeth (Tilley) 74
Edison 117
Education Gazette 106
Eggling, Viking 19
Ehrenburg, Ilya 22, 23, 24, 25
electricity 2, 25
electric motors 17
Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch
(Primer of Spoken English) 75
Eliot, T. S. 27, 69
Ellis, A. J. 97, 104
elocution
in Australia 3-4, 10, 59-70, 79, 87-95,
105-108
new 69
in New York 76-77
teachers 76, 88, 105-106
in USA 10
emancipation 11
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 52
Empire
loyalty to 53, 83, 152, 154
English
Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) 14
broken 85
correct 87, 99
Cockney 85
county 85
Irish 85, 100
King’s 85, 86, 93
Oxford (UK) 83
Southern (UK) 94
Standard 73, 74, 93
Enlightenment 10, 68, 118
Errington, Betty 128
Es liegt in der Luft (There’s Something in the
Air) 25
ethno-musicology 114
etiquette 10, 88, 90
Euphon English in America 76
Euphonetics 76
Eureka (Australia) 15
Eureka! 14
Europe 7, 12, 15, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 36, 42,
43, 75, 100, 114, 117, 133, 152
Everylady’s Journal 90
Everyones 133, 136
Ewers, John K. 87
Exeter (UK) 100, 128,
Experiment 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 19, 60, 135,
138, 140, 141, 152
FBO-RKO 134
Fair, Roger 128
Fairfax, Hon. John 74
‘Fairy Godmother’ (Margaret Herd) 127
Farmer & Co. Ltd 140
Fauchery, Antoine 11, 12
Federation (of Australia) 2, 35, 36
Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters
129
film(s)
American
anti-American feeling on 152, 153
bad English in 1, 152
evil effect of 152
Americanisation
Educational conferences on
Parliamentary debates on 152
censorship of 152, 153
exhibition chains 134
as foreign offices 77
and live musical performances 134
and mechanically reproduced sound 26,
27, 135
producer-distributors 133, 134
radio fan clubs
Royal Commission on 153
sound in disc system 140, 141, 144, 145,
147
sound-on-film system 135, 138, 142,
144, 146, 147
trade magazines 133, 135
Film Weekly 133, 136
First British 144
First Lessons in Speech Improvement 76
First National-Warner Bros. 134
Fisk, Sir Ernest 124
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 28
Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions 41
Fletcher, J. J. 42
flutes 16
Fort Street School (Sydney, Australia) 74
Fortnightly Review 53
Foucault, Michel 116
Fox 134, 136
Fox Movietone 135
Fox Hoyts Radio Club 127
Fox Movietone Radio Club 127
freedom 7, 9, 10, 16, 41, 100
French Revolution 117
Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History
of Psychoanalysis in Australia 1
Froude, James 101, 105
Furphy, Joseph 45
Garran, Bob 49, 51
‘the gaze’ 116, 118
Geelong (Victoria, Australia) 105
gender
and education 116
and the gold-fields 16
and music 118
and radio 118, 124-129
and reading 117
and silencing 15
and speech 2, 50-57, 86, 90-91, 104,
106-107
and technology 117
and writing 37, 114, 117
General American 76
General Theatre Supplies Ltd—Cinesound
146
geography
of Australia 37, 40-46
local 42, 44
Germany 63, 75
friendship with England 77
and Hitler 119-120
gesture
acoustic 10
auditory 11
bodily 68
full 68
spontaneous 68
strained 89
Gillies, Malcolm 8
Gilmore, Mary 62
Gippsland (Victoria, Australia) 37
Gladstone, William 54
global
industry 79-80, 133
vernacular 78-80
voice 80
globalisation 78-79, 120
Gloom Chasers 128
Goebbels, Joseph 119-120
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of
Australia 15
Gold Seeking 15
The Golden Age 15
Golden Gully 14
gold-fields 1, 2, 7-17
Goll, Ivan 29-30
Gomery, D. 134
Good American Speech 3, 76-78, 94
Good American Speech 78
Goodman, David 15
Gordon, Adam Lindsay 43, 59-60, 62
Graded Objectives for Teaching Good
American Speech 76-77
gramophone 16, 21, 24, 27, 123, 145
grammar of emotion 68
Great War (World War I) 19, 30, 77
Greek philosophers 123
Green, James 86
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God 64-65
Grey, Sir Edward 49
Griffen-Foley, Bridget 4, 123-131
Grose, Frank (‘Uncle Frank’) 128
The Guermantes Way 26-27
gun-fire 1, 8, 11-13, 15-16
Gustafson, Zadel 50-52
h-dropping 101
Haberman, Frederick William 68
Hamlet 120
Hancock, W. K. 83
handwriting 117
Hannibal 113
Hansen, Miriam 78-80
Hanson, Pauline 4, 120-121
Harpur, Charles 43
Harrington, Jonathan 106
Harringtons Ltd 139, 147
Hart, Alfred 85
Harte, Bret 60
Harty, Frank Sturge 125-126
Hasluck, Alison 88
Hauser, Miska 12, 14
Hawkins, Stanley William 144, 153-154
Hayes, J. Milton 64
hearing
jazz 28-32
performances of literature 64
and modernity 20-32
radio 25-26
of silences 16
on the telephone 26-27
training of 21-32
Hebrew Union College (New York City) 74
Help Thy Neighbour 125
Hepburn, Thomas 37-38
Herald and Weekly Times 140
Herd, Margaret (‘Fairy Godmother’) 127
Herring, Edmund 75
Higgins, Arthur 141
Higson, A. and Maltby, R. 133
Hindenburg disaster 119
Hirst, John 35
historians
of Australia 7, 15, 35, 83
of the Australian accent 3, 106-108
of education 36, 39-40
of Federation 35-36, 55
of film 137, 144-145, 152
of the gold-fields 14-15
of language 10
of listening 1-2
of modernity 1-2, 7, 16, 24
of radio 69
of reading practices 61-62
of the senses 1
of sound 1-2
of talking 1-2, 83
of technology 4, 152
Hitler, Adolph 119-121
Hoffer, Peter 16
Holman, William 66
Holman, W. A. 66
Holland, Sir Henry 53-55
Holland, James 44
Holland, Lady 53
Hollywood 78
Australians in 80
and Broadway theatre 79
cosmopolitan community 78, 80
dominance 137-138, 144, 152-153
films in Australia 134, 140, 146, 153
global vernacular 76, 80
studios in Australia 133-138
Home 123
homelessness 32
homosexuality 121
Honey, John 105
Hood, Sir A. 54
Hood, Thomas 66
Hoover, Herbert 119
Horatius 60
Horne, R. H. 98
Hoskins, Sir A. 54
House of Commons 49, 54
A House for Mr Biswas 62-63
Houseman, John 78
Howard, John 120
Howitt, William 12
Hoyts Theatres (Australia) 135-136, 140,
142
Hughes, Langston 28
Hughes, W.M. 57, 124
Hume Broadcasters 129
Hunt, Arthur Atlee 49, 51, 56
Hunt, Simon 120
Hunter College (New York) 75-76
Husbands and Wives 125
I Don’t Like It 121
identity
collective 13-14, 36, 113-114
cultural 1-2
imperial 62
individual 2, 4, 36, 113-114
national 4, 36, 45-46, 62, 86, 107-108,
152
Illustrated London News 25
I’m a Back Door Man 120-121
immersion language-teaching 75
immigrants 79, 9
imperial
condescension 50
citizenship 62
conference 56
domination 55
education systems 60
family 124
ideology 61
policy 55
symbols 97, 107
Imperial Federation League 53, 56
imperialism
and capitalism 30
In The Droving Days 60
independence
Australian 53
gold-field 13-14
manly 57
and migration 9-10
negotiated 12
national 2, 9-10
India 77
industrialization 123
Inglis, Ken 92
Institut Tilly 75
international modernist idiom 78-79
International Phonetic Alphabet 78
International Phonetic Association 75
International Theatre Arts Institute 78
international women’s movement 79
Internationale 24
internationalism 3, 77
intimacy, and radio 123-131
Ireland 54, 97
Irish brogue 85, 100
Ironbark (New South Wales, Australia)
74-75
Irving, Henry 66
Ivanhoe 41, 45
J. C. Williamson Ltd 140
Jackson, Alfred 44
James, G. L. 104, 107
jazz 7, 27-30, 32, 120
jazz age 27-30, 32
Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret 28
The Jazz Singer 136, 140
Jefferson, Rev. Charles E. 73-74
Jericho 113
Johnson, Bruce 4, 113-121
Johnson, Lesley 69, 124
Johnson, Samuel 114-115
Johnson, Mr 51
Johnston, Graeme 107-108
Jones, Daniel 75-76
Jones, J. S. 39-40
Jordan, Dorothy 128
Joyce, James 27
Julia Richman High School (New York City)
76
Juilliard School (New York City) 78
Katoomba (New South Wales, Australia)
147
Kernan, Alvin 114
Kiesler, Frederick 78
Kendall, Henry 43
Kennedy, Graham 130
Kevin, John 38-39
Kipling, Rudyard 59, 61, 62, 67, 129
Kipling Boys’ Club 129
Kirkpatrick, Peter 2-3, 59-70
Korzelinski, Seweryn 12
La Nauze, J. A. 50, 52, 57
Lab School (American Laboratory Theatre)
78
‘The Lady of Shalott’ 66
Lake, Marilyn 2, 49-57
landscapes 8, 10, 24, 42, 67, 115, 154
language
of Annie Besant 54
Australian 83-95, 97-108
Australian colloquial 92-94, 107-108
body 11
of the common man 45
direct 90-91
English 45-46, 85-86, 88, 98
of the gold-fields 14
inspirational 35
international modernist idiom 78-79
of machines 7
Mr Bligh’s 1
and national identity 83-87
plain 10
politics of 10
of the poor 115-116
pure 91, 99
shared 12
study of 38, 74-75
of Tasmanian-born (Australia) 100
teaching
of English 75-76
of French 75
of German 75
reform of 75-76
transgressive 10
universal 25, 74
variety of 22, 23, 28
Lasca 59, 61
Lacasse, Serge 120
Lauder, Afferbeck 107
Laurier, Sir Wildred 49
law 10, 20, 51, 115
Laws, John 69
Lawson, Henry 14, 45, 61-62, 69
lawyers 60
Lays of Ancient Rome 60
Leakey, Caroline 100-101
Lee, Nicky and Nancy (Clifford Nicholls
Whitta (‘Nicky’) and Kathleen Lindgren
(“Nancy Lee’) 130
Leeds (UK) 45
Leland Powers School of Theatre (Boston,
USA) 78
Lessing, Theodor 23-24
Let Stalk Strine 107
liberty 10, 16
The Life of the Automobile 22, 24
Life is a Very Funny Proposition After All 65
Lindgren, Kathleen (“Nancy Lee’) 130
lips 24, 85, 87, 88, 95, 103, 106
Listener In 125
listeners 22, 92, 118
gold-field 8-9
radio 4, 67, 92-93, 124-137
listening 1-2
communal 40
deficiency 87
to the gold-fields 7-17
modernist 20
to the radio 25
and reading 38
selective 13, 15
training in 21-32
literacy 38
cartographic 40-42
in fifteenth and sixteenth-century
England 114-116
universal 36, 61
Livy 113
localisms 77
locally made 145, 153
Lockhart, Bruce 77
London (UK) 2, 20, 30-31, 45, 49-54, 56-57.
63, 73-74, 77, 79, 88, 89, 98, 100-101,
114, 116
Longfellow, Henry 62
looking 21, 24, 57, 141
Lorimer, Sir James 53
loudspeakers 17, 120, 139
loyalty, double 84
Lucas, Sir Charles 51, 56
Lumenthode-Beam Projection and Sound
Apparatus 144
Lupton, George 105
Lyceum (Sydney) 135-136
Lyons, Martyn 61-62
MGM 134
MGM Radio Movie Club 127
McBurney, Samuel 104
McCombie, Thomas 8
McCredie, James 39, 42-43
McKenry, Keith 67
McKenzie, Barry 107
McLean, Margaret Prendergast 78
McNair, W. A. 123
Macaulay, Lord 53
Macdonald, Alexander 65
Macdougall, Duncan 66-67
MacGowan, Kenneth 78
machines 1, 7, 21-24, 30
MacLure, Victor 88-89
Macquarie Dictionary 107-108
Macquarie network 130
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
92
Madden, Sir John 104, 107
magic lantern 66
Mallarky, Ethel M. 97-98
The Man from Ironbark 74
The Man from Snowy River 61
‘Man of the Crowd’ 21
The Man Without Qualities 19, 30
manhood 2
American 50-51
Australian 2, 51-, 54-57
independent 50-51, 56-57
maps 40-43, 45
Marburg (Germany) 75
Marchand, Roland 123
Markophone 137, 142-143, 145, 148, 153
Marlowe, Christopher 114
Married Life 32
Marsh, Gordon 129
Martin, Dr Frederick 76
Marxist critique 22
masculine 49, 50, 55, 56. 91, 94
women as 54-55
mass communication 4, 118-121, 123-131
mass culture 36, 70, 78-79
mass education 36, 37, 41, 61
mass production 22-23, 27, 32
Matthews, Jill Julius 134
Mechanics’ Institutes 64
mechanisation 23, 30
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) 40-50, 63,
73-74, 75, 85, 104, 105-106, 129-130,
147, 152
Melbourne Grammar School 52
Melbourne Shakespeare Society 85
memory 7, 14-15, 39, 52, 56, 90
Menzies, R. G. 94
Meredith, Louise (Mrs Charles Meredith)
84, 98
Methodist Ladies’ College (Melbourne,
Australia) 104
‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ 20
microphone 67, 117
and Australian accent 93
Ball 129
and gender 118
and power 119
migration 9, 23
Milton, John 62
Miserable Club 129
Mitchell, A. G. 92-93, 106
Mo (Roy Rene) 64-65
the mob 113, 115, 116-117
modern 123
Berlin (Germany) 23
cultural identities 2
experience 24
language teaching 75
mass medium 131
metropolis 23, 30-32, 59
music 31-32
popular culture 3, 59-60, 70
sensory world 32
societies 7
soundscape 22
technologies of speech and performance
2-3, 133
time 16
modern languages 74, 75
modern life 1, 25, 31, 123
complexity of 130
impersonality of 27, 130
noise of 27-28
modern self 1-2, 23
Modern Times 22
modernisation 24, 152-154
modernising 10, 133, 135, 137, 153
modernism 9, 29, 30, 67
international idiom 78-79
modernist 19-20, 62, 64, 67, 69
international idiom 78-79
magazine 123-124
modernity
agents of 4-5, 152-153
ambivalent embrace of 30, 133
Americanisation of 133
and aural time 7
and cinema 2, 24, 25, 78-79, 133-154
emotional history of 16
as era of neo-orality 121
and everyday life 133
global 4, 152
gold-field sounds and 7-17
historians of 1-2
and jazz 28-32
and laziness 85
models of 7, 79
multiple 2, 7
and power 4, 113-121, 123
rejection of naturalism 8
rights culture 16
and sensory hierarchy 13
separation of work and play 15
and sound 7-17, 113-121
and sound recording 4, 113, 117, 118,
137
and sound films 4-5, 133-154
urban 135
in Vienna (Austria) 21
and the visual 16
and voice 4, 113-121
Monich, Timothy 78
monologues, comic 64
Montague, Mrs Elizabeth 105
Moore, Bruce 3, 97-111
moral sense 61
moral worth 4, 84
Morrisson, Mark 69
Morse code 117
Motion Picture Distributors Association
(MPDA) of Australia 134
Motion pictures 137
Movietone 140, 151, 135
Radio Club 127
Mr and Mrs Everybody 125-126
Mr Bligh’s Bad Language 1
Mrs ’Arris and Mrs ’Iggs 126
Mugglestone, Lynda 105
Mundy, Godfrey 8
Munro-Ferguson, Helen 91
Murdoch, Keith 140
Murdoch, Rupert 140
Murray, J. H. 43
Murray, Les 64, 67
Murray’s Magazine 53
music
American 29
black 29-30
commercial 14
dance 29
diasporic 13
distributers 140
domestic 14-15
early 20th century 21-22
film 134, -135, 141
gold-field 7, 13-15
gramophone 27
halls 28, 31, 60, 64, 65, 125
jazz 28-32
journal 30
negro 29-30
popular 28, 118
and radio 123, 125, 126
and recitation 66
recorded 24, 27
and subjectivity 13-14
teacher 127
theme 14
ultra-modern 31
on Victorian stage 64
musical 14, 89
musicales 127
Musil, Robert 19-21, 23, 27, 30
Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales
and Van Dieman’s Land in the Ship
‘Skelton’ during the year 1820 99
nation 1, 2, 15
British 115
and empire 45. 50, 83-84, 97-98
and geography 41-43
independence 2, 50
of public speakers 40
and radio 25, 124
transnational 77
nation-building 3-4, 15, 35, 37, 45, 50,
97-98, 119-120
nation-state 36, 123
national character 4, 95
national film censors 153
national groups 13
national identity 4, 36, 45-46, 50, 61, 86-87,
108, 152
National Life and Character 41-42
National Policy on Languages 108
national sound 15
national sound industry (Australia) 145,
147-148, 153-154
nationalism 61, 94, 97
continental Australian 2, 35, 43, 45
naturalism 8, 68
Naipaul, V. S. 62-63
new, the 7, 13
New Caledonia 55
New England (USA) 74, 76
New Hebrides 55
New South Wales (NSW Australia) 37,
38-39, 43, 44, 60, 74, 84, 91, 98, 99,
102, 106, 139, 142
central-western 107
Education Department 75
NSW Broadcasting Company (NSWBC) 140
new woman 118
new world 31
New York City 29, 30-31, 52, 73-77
Director of Speech Improvement 76
films made in 77, 79
high school teachers 75, 76
intellectuals 77
pronunciation of 75-76
theatre 73, 75, 77-80
New York Times 73, 76
New York University 76
New Yorker 78
New Zealand 41, 53, 89, 104, 128, 144, 147
foundation accent 99
Newbolt, Henry 60-61
Newcastle (Australia) 124, 147
Newcastle (UK) 45
newspapers 35, 60, 64, 107, 114, 141, 152
vendors 23
Noad, Alexander Henry 142, 153
noise 7-12, 16, 19-20, 22-24, 31
of Berlin 23
of factory sirens 23
disruptive 115-116
of gun-powder 12
hearing 32
of jazz 28-30
and the mob 115-117
of modern life 27
politicisation of 115-117
as a problem 22-24, 115-117
public 116-117
reduction 22-24, 115-117
of the typewriter 117
noiselessness 9, 22, 31
North, Michael 26
Norton, Lady Caroline 62-63
Norwood, Reverend Frederick W. 73-74
nostalgia 14, 32
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales
During a Residence in the Colony from
1839 to 1844 98
Nowell-Smith, G. and Ricci, S. 133
Oceana, or, England and her colonies 101
O’Ferrall, ‘Kodak’ 59
Onslow, Sir William Hillier 53
Onslow, Lady 53
oratory
of Annie Besant 54-55
contests 76
of Deakin 1, 2, 49-57
and elocution 67-68
of Gladstone 54
of Hitler 119-200
as masculine 2, 49-57
of Roosevelt 119-200
training in 60
as unfeminine 54-55
Orwell, George 67
Our Oral Word, As Social and Economic
Factor 76-77
Ouspenskaya, Maria 78
Outlaw and Lawmaker 99
Outline of English Pronunciation 76
Oxford (UK) 24, 74, 75
English 83, 97
The Oxford Companion to Australian
Folklore 67
Oxford English Dictionary 106
Pacific Ocean 53, 55, 56, 79
Palethorpe, Sallyanne 107
Palmer, Thomas 106
Palmer, Vance 94
Paramount 134
parents 36, 39, 99, 100
Paris (France) 1, 2, 8-9, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29,
56, 74-75
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Broadcasting 129
Parsons, Elsie Clews 77
Parsons, Fred 65
Passy, Paul 75
Paterson, Banjo 60, 62
patriotism 61, 152
Pauline Pantsdown 4, 120-121
Pearson, Charles Henry 39, 43, 52, 53
peculiarities, local 43-44, 45, 73, 79-98
pedestrians 19, 21
‘personal’ 4, 123-125, 130-131
personality 20-21
acoustic 10
radio 69, 125-131
theatre 78
Phillips, Wendell 50
phonetician 75
phonetics
readership in at Oxford (UK) 75
teaching of 3, 75-76, 78
phonics 3
cited in Oxford English Dictionary 106
teaching in NSW, Australia 106
teaching in Victoria, Australia 106
Phonofilms Australia (De Forest Phonofilms
Australia Ltd) 135-137, 144
Picasso, Pablo 29
Pickering, Kenneth 66, 68
Pitt Street Congregational Church (Sydney)
74
placelessness 25, 32
platitudes 49, 53
Playbox Theatre (Sydney, Australia) 66-67
Plymouth (UK) 45
Poe, Edgar Allen 21
Poems of Spirit and Action 60
poetry
and actors 66
Australian 43
bush 59
and class 64
and elocution 90
generation 60-62
memorized 62
modern 2
and music hall 64-65
performance 2-3, 59-70
and popular culture 59-61, 64, 69-70
and radio 67-70
recitation 59-70
society 69
and song 64-65
star 67
Polehampton, Arthur 11
popular culture 3, 60, 127
power 2, 4, 10, 12, 20, 25, 56
American 50-51
British 50, 56
economic 123
for good 124
of the gaze 118
and gender 117
of Hollywood 137
male 49-53
oratorical 52-57, 88, 119
of popular speech 60
and print 116-118
of radio 118-120, 130
and sound 113-121
and the underclasses 116-117
and voice 113-121
Practical Study of Languages 75
Praed, Rosa 98-99
Pray, Sophie 76-77
pre-industrial society 7, 15
prejudice 32
The Prelude 116
Prentice, J. M. (‘Uncle Jack’) 126
Primer of Phonetics 75
Primer of Spoken English (Elementarbuch
des gesprochenen Englisch) 75
primitivism 29
print, power of 4, 114-118, 121
Prison Act of 1865 116
pronunciation
of Aborigines (Australia) 44
American 3, 73-80, 97
Australian 3-4, 39-40, 43-46, 73-74,
85-95, 97-108
of Australian girls 104
of Australian native-born 100
and class 61
of dipthongs 102-107
Early English Text Society books on 104
and empire 97-98
English 3, 73-76, 92, 97, 104
faulty 87-93, 101-107
of ‘h’ 101, 102
ideal 3, 105
London (UK) 98
New York City (USA) 75-77
in New Zealand 104
and place 45
pure 105-106
of ‘r’ 75-76
received 76, 97, 105-107
standard 3, 61, 73-74, 88, 104-
of ‘take’ 102-103
of Tasmanians (Australia) 102
teaching 39-46, 78, 101-107
uniform 45-46
Victorian (Australia) 43, 102
Proust, Marcel 26
provincialisms 3, 45, 97, 104-106
of London, Yorkshire, Lancashire,
Somerset, America 45
Public Instruction Gazette 106
public schools
New York 76
Australian 86
system 105
public speakers 2, 40
purity 3, 88, 91, 105
Pyke, W. T. 63
Quality Street 67
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 51-52
Queen’s Theatre (Crow’s Nest, Sydney,
Australia) 141
Queensland (Australia) 37, 106, 120
‘r’, pronunciation of 75-76
RCA Photophone 137, 144, 145, 148, 151
race 13, 15, 29, 41, 45-46, 94-95, 98
radio 2, 4, 118, 123-124, 139
ABC (Australian Broadcasting
Commission) 92-94
age 123
advertising 69, 123
announcers 69, 124-127, 129
audience 25
participation 126-131
BBC (British Broadcasting Commission)
25
voice 92-93
Berlin 25
and birthday calls 126
Broadcasters-Sydney Ltd 139
broadcasts 119, 124
for schools 76
and children 124-126, 129
clubs 127-130
commercial 126
and community 25, 126
cosmopolitanism 25
and country lives 124, 129
and empire 124
as family companion 4, 24, 127, 131
fan mail 126
Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters 129
and film sound systems 134, 139-140,
144, 147
and housewives 125, 126
and informality 67
and intimacy 4, 123-131, 119
and jazz 28
Macquarie network 130
as a mass medium 123-124
Mo (Roy Rene) 64-65
and morality 129
and modernity 2, 4, 7, 21-22, 24, 24,
117, 123, 130-131
and music 28, 125
NSW Broadcasting Company 140
and the New Woman 118
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Broadcasting 129
personalities 69, 125-130
pet clubs 130
power of 118-120, 123-124
and recitation 67-70
and social movements 127
stars 130
suppliers 139, 140, 147
talkback 126
virtuality 25-26
and voice 67, 69, 92-93
and women 125, 127-130
women’s roles in 124-125, 129
Radio Paris (France) 25
Radio Pictorial of Australia 126
Radio Sunday School 128
Ramson, W. S. 108
Raubicheck, Letitia 76
Raycophone 137-148, 153-154
reading 35, 37
appropriate comportment 116
and citizenship 46
as cultural capital 62-63, 64
expression 43, 105
history of 61-62
as marker of class 64
out loud 38-45, 64, 89-90
of poetry 61-62
practices 61-62
public 64
and speech 38-45, 101-106, 118-119
teaching of 39-40, 43-46, 89-90, 101-106
rebellion 30
received pronunciation 76, 95, 97, 102, 105,
107
recitation 59-60
in the 1920s 59
and actors’ training 66, 68-69
in America 62
in Australia 2-3, 59-70
and ballads 60-61
and class mobility 61, 64
in the concert hall 65-67
demise of 67-70
and elocution 60, 67-70
as entertainment 63-67
and good speech 61
and the music hall 64-65
in the parlour 65-66
popularity of 67
professionalisation 60
and public reading 64-65
and radio 67-70
and reading practices 61-62
and reciter books 63, 67
in schools 3, 40, 60-69
simultaneous 40
reciter 59, 62-70
The Red Dance 136
Reeves, Goodie (‘Auntie Goodie’) 125
referenda 35, 43
reform
pedagogical 36-40, 67, 75
social 35, 84
Regent (Sydney, Australia) 135-136
Renaissance 117, 123
Rennick, F. H. 43
republican 10, 50, 57
resistance 10, 15, 133, 152
restraint 69
revolution
American 36
French 117
sound 154
revolutionary 7, 10, 55-56, 75, 138
Revue nègre 29-30
Rich, Kathleen 88
Richardson, Ethel (Henry Handel
Richardson) 40-41
Richter, Hans 19
Riot Act of 1715 116
rights 2, 10, 15, 16, 51, 120, 135
Roaring Twenties 2, 7, 160
Robbery Under Arms 98
The Romance of a Station: An Australian
Story 99
Roosevelt, F. D. 119
Royce, Josiah 50, 56
Rubin, Joan Shelley 61-62
rupture 2, 7, 16
Ruttmann, Walther 19
Sackville, Lady Margaret 69
Salisbury, Lord 51-52, 55-56
sarcasm 49
Saunders, G. A. (‘Uncle George’) 128
Schiffer, Marcellus 25
school 2
acting 75, 78
American 62
anthology 60
and communal reading 40
and film technology 145
and geography 40-44
and literacy 36-38
and the nation 35, 62
New York City 76
pronunciation of 106
and radio 85, 125
and reading 37-39, 43
and reading aloud 39
recitations in 3, 40, 60-63, 69
and speech 76-77, 85-86, 90, 101-107
system 36-39, 62, 75, 105
schoolchildren 1, 40-41, 45, 62-63, 90-91,
101-107
schoolteacher 3, 28, 41, 75, 104
school inspectors 36-39, 42-46, 101-106
Schopenhauer, Arthur 23-24
science
of elocution 60
and modernity 123
Scotland 97
Scots 104
Scott, Walter 41
Scribner’s 50
self, modern 1, 23
self-improvement 35, 65, 95
senses
estrangement of 27-28
experiment with 16
and film 78-79
history and anthropology of 1
and modernity 16-17, 32
training of 24, 30
sensorium 21, 78
sentiment 35, 61, 64, 98
Serle, Geoffrey
The Golden Age 15
Service, James 52, 54
Shakespeare, William 62, 63, 66, 90, 115
society 85
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 69
Sherer, John 11
Shirley, G. and Adams, B. 137
The Sick Stockrider 60
sight
historians and 1, 15
and sound 13, 15
silence
of the bush 9, 16
and morality 116
new 8
regimes of 1, 116
right to impose 116
silent system 116
Simmel, Georg 20-23, 25, 27, 31
simultaneity 25
singing 13
of birds 29
community 4, 126, 128-129, 131
penalties for 116
sirens 23, 24
Skinner, Edith (nee Warman) 78
skyscraper 123
slang 91
Slessor, Kenneth 118
‘The Smileman’ (AWA executive Roger Fair)
128
Smith, Al 119
Snider, Leon Samuel 142, 153
Sofala strike (New South Wales, Australia) 8
songs 64
Australian
colonial 14
communal 13
convict 116
gold-field 13, 15
Nazi 120
Songs of the Sentimental Bloke 107
sound 2
in the 20s 7, 16
aesthetic of 2
Australian 3, 84, 95
of the bush 8-9
of the city 19-20, 30-31
and class 116-117
colonial 8
communal 14
as communication 24
of the convict era 16
of death 16
democratising 10-12, 16
diasporic 13
equipment 133
factory 1
in film 1, 4, 77, 119-120, 133-154
disc 142, 144-145, 147
sound-on-film 135-146
functional 10, 21-22
of the gold-fields 1, 2, 7-17
of gun-fire 8, 11-15
historians and 1-2, 7, 14-15, 153
industrial 7, 8
and information 117
jagged 19
of jazz 29-32
and liberty 10
and machines 21, 22
meaning of 7, 21, 32
measured 2, 22-23
and memory 14-15
mixing 4, 113, 120-121
and modernity 7, 10, 15-17, 19-32, 133
and morality 9-10, 13
as music 13-15
national 15
new 20
as Pandeminium 12-13
and phonetics 76
and place 19-20
pleasing 38
and power 113-121
pre-industrial 7, 9
radius of 4
reading and 38-39
recording 4, 32, 113, 117-121
regulated 2, 23
reproduced 2, 21-27
and the self 1-2, 9-10, 13-14
and sight 1, 13, 15, 19, 118
as social knowledge 13
storage systems 4, 113, 118
technology 4, 15, 26-27, 118-120,
133-154
on telephone 26-27
and time 4, 7
transitory nature of 14
of Vienna 19-20, 32
sound-scapes
of the 1920s 2
of Berlin (Germany) 2
disruptive 10, 13, 16
of Europe 7
gold-field 7-8, 14, 16
historians and 14-15
industrial 8
of modernity 16
natural 8
of play 15-16, 26-27
pre-modern pastoral 9
of refuge 9
of the self 9-10
social 9-10
technological 15
of uplift 9
of Vienna (Austria) 2, 19-20
South Africa
in theatre circuits 79
South Australia
sound films in 141
teaching of geography in 37-39, 42-45
space
annihilation of 25
and maps 40
new dynamic of 24, 32
and print 115
private 11
public 4, 113
subversion of 27
territorial 113-114
transnational 113
vocalized 4, 113-114
Speak with Distinction 78
speech
of actors 3, 73-74, 77, 79-80, 98
Adelaide (South Australia) 45
Alfred Deakin’s 49-50
American 3, 45, 73-74, 76, 97
art of 88-89
artificial 69
audible 86
Australian 3-4, 14, 44-46, 73-74, 83-95,
97-106
1960s 106-107
actors 78-80
boys 86
native-born 100-101
teaching of 90
women 90-92
bad 45, 89-90
beautiful 53, 76, 83
best 86, 88, 97
Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) 45
British 87, 88
Dominions 97
Canadian 97
clean 54-55, 85
and class 86, 97-98
and climate 87
Cockney 44, 97, 101-102
colonialisms 45
common 10
communal 2, 40
conversation 89-91
Cornish (UK) 44, 102
cultivated 97, 106-107
cultured 73
and deportment 90-91
dialect 99
direct 11
drawl 98-99
effeminate 86
and empire 97-98
England 97
English 87-89, 93-94, 97-98
faulty 77, 87, 105
in film 78-79
good 61, 73-74, 86-87, 97
Good American 76-80
historians and 1-2, 10, 39, 83
Hancock, W.K. on 83
and Hollywood 78-79
improvement 76-77
indistinct 89
intimate 1
Ireland 97
Lancashire (UK) 45
lazy 85-89, 93-95
of lecturers 73
Leeds (UK) 45
localisms 73
London (UK) 45, 73
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) 45, 73
middle-class 93
mincing 92
and morality 3-4, 84, 88-95
mumbling 86
and the nation 3, 44-46, 83-87, 95, 97-98
Newcastle (UK) 45
New England (USA) 76
New York City (USA) 73-76
normal 73
Oxford (UK) 97
plain 10
Plymouth (UK) 45
polite 38, 91
popular 60
powerful 1
of preachers 73-74
problems 76-77
provincialisms 45, 97
pure 1, 3, 99-101, 106, 152
and radio 85, 92-94
and reading 38
regional 74, 76
Scotland 97
Somerset (UK) 45
standard 73-74, 93, 97-98, 105
Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) 45
Tasmanian (Australia) 100-102, 107
technologies of 2-3
teachers of 3, 45, 74-76, 78, 86-89
teaching
inspectors 43-44, 103-106
professionalisation of 76
training 76
in the theatre 78
training 39, 61
uniform 2, 40-46
universal 76-80, 97
Victorian (Australia) 43-44
vulgarisms 45
World English 76-80
and writing 38
Yorkshire (UK) 45, 97
Speak Out! The Commonsense of Elocution 89
speaking
art of 68, 69
carelessly 93
communal 40
in conversation 88-92
and deportment 90-92
plain 56
of poetry 60, 69
public 49, 52, 54, 60, 67, 87, 88, 89,
119-120
on radio 92, 120
and reading 38-39
on the telephone 26-27
well 84-92
to the world 74, 76-80
speech-making 49-57
‘The Spoken Word’ 73, 78
Spoliansky, Mischa 25-26
St Andrew’s College (Sydney University,
Australia) 67
St Arnaud (Victoria, Australia) 43
standardisation 23, 31, 153
Stanhope, Countess 57
Stawell (Victoria, Australia) 44
steam engine 15, 123
Stefan, Paul 30
Stelzer, Mrs W. J. (Eunice) 127-130
Stephens, A. G. 63
Stevens, Captain A. C. C. (Cheerio Man’)
125
Stevens, Bertram 63
Stivens, Dal 94-95
Stuart Town (New South Wales, Australia)
74
subjectivities
individual 2
collective 2
new 78
subway train 16
Sumner, Charles 50
Sun (Sydney) 140
Sweet, Henry 75-76
Sydney (Australia) 74-75, 88, 89, 139
2BL 140
2CH 126
2GB 125, 127
2SM 125
2UE 125
2UW 126
Abbotsleigh School 90
Ascham School 75
Daily Telegraph 123
Domain 69
elocution teachers in 66-67, 94
Lyceum theatre 135
Queen’s Theatre 141
Raycophone 147
Regent theatre 135, 136
school children’s speech in 45, 104, 107
Sun 140
Sydney Morning Herald 74, 140
talkie war in 141
A Sydney-Side Saxon 41
Syme, David 52
Symonds, Hyacinth M. 106
Tait brothers 140
‘take’, pronunciation of 102-104
Taksa, Lucy 61-62
talkies 133
American 1, 152-153
Bad English in 152
talkies war 133-154
talking 114
Australian 83, 84-85, 98-99
children’s 37
historians and 1-2
like an American 73
polite 91-92
and virtual communication 24
women 91-92
talking pictures 7
and the American twang 152-153
Australian 141
and profit 137, 140
and radio 127
Tangalooma Tiger 69
Tasmania (Australia)
Australian accent in 100, 102, 107
Education system 37
as part of Australia 43
teachers
of acting 66, 78
against American influence 154
of elocution 66-67, 90-91, 105-106
of geography 40-45
high school 75-77
and jazz 28
of languages 75
New York City 76-78
of phonetics 3, 106
and pedagogical reform 36-45
of public speaking 66-67
of reading 39, 44-45
of recitation 40, 66
and school inspectors 37-45, 101-106
of speech 3, 38-45, 75-78, 83, 90-91,
101-106
training 3, 76-77, 106
unions 152
teaching
in acting schools 3, 78
at Columbia University (New York City)
3, 75-78
of elocution 61, 87-91
of English 61, 97
extension courses 75
of geography 37-38, 40-44
of language 75
in New York City high schools 75-77
of phonics 106
of poetry 61
of reading 39, 106
of recitation 61
reforms of 36-39, 75, 106
of speech 39-40, 75-78, 86-91, 102-106
summer schools 75
of teachers 3
of women 117
of writing 117
The Teaching of English in England 61
technologies
acoustic 118
American 133-154
Australian 135-154
communication 2, 23, 26, 114, 117
digital 120
and gender 117
media 2, 20, 26, 32, 67, 117
modern 133
of pleasure 16
of popular culture 60
of radio and film 4, 7, 21, 24, 125
of sound 4, 21, 24, 27, 113, 117, 118,
119, 133-154
of speech and performance 2
stenography 117
subversive 27, 123
take-up time 114
telegraph 123
Telegraph Pictorial 140
telephone 2, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 117, 118,
124
telescope 123
television 14, 123
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 62, 64, 66
territory 1, 4, 35, 113-114
Thalberg, Irving 79
Thatcher, Charles 14
theatre
acoustic 120
American touring companies 79
audiences 116
circuits 79
critic 74
and elocution 66, 68
entrepreneurs 138, 140
as a global industry 79
managers 98, 145
movie 137
naturalism in 68
oratory in 114
speech in 77, 78
of sound 10, 12
supplies 146
training 78
transnational 74, 77, 79
voice projection for 60
and women’s movement 79
Theatre Arts Monthly 3, 74, 78
Theatre Magazine 66, 68
Thibauld, Etienne 74-75
Thompson, Cameron 120
Thompson, Flora 40
Thompson, J. H. 52
Thompson, J. Walter 123
Thompson, John 67
Tighe, Lewis C. 141
Tighe, William J. 141
Tilley, Charles 74
Tilley, Elizabeth, nee Edgerton 74
Tilley, Hannah (Clunies Ross) 74
Tilly, William 3, 74-75
influence 74, 75-80
pupils 3, 74, 75-78
and the letter ‘r’ 75-76
sons 75
transnationalism of 77, 79
William Tilly Association 76
time 23
acoustic 14
annihilation of 25
aural 2, 7
in Australia 83
modern 16, 24
simultaneity 25
and sound 7
subversion of 27-28
Tivoli vaudeville circuit 64
tongue-laziness 85, 87
training
of actors 66, 78
in film sound 144
of mental powers 36, 38
for modernity 19-32
for public speaking 89
of the senses 30, 32
speech 2, 39-40, 60, 61, 66-68
of speech teachers 76-77
vocational 126
transnational 3, 4, 63, 77, 78, 113
transnationalism 77
Trevelyan Sir George 53-54
Tupper, Fred (‘Tuppy’) 130
Tulloch. J. 137
twang
American 98, 152
Australian 98, 104
lack of 100
colonial 106
Twain, Mark 14, 84
Two Years in New South Wales 98
Twopenny, Richard 84
typewriter 117
Ulysses 27
‘Uncle Bert’ (Bert Woolley) 129
‘Uncle Col’ (Charles Coldwell-Smith) 126
‘Uncle Frank’ (Frank Grose) 128
‘Uncle George’ (G. A. Saunders) 128
‘Uncle Jack’ (J. M. Prentice) 126-127
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 79
‘Uncle Tom’s Gang’ 125
Union Theatres 135-137, 140
United States of America (USA; see also
America)
as first transnational nation 77
University of Maine (USA) 74
University of Marburg (Germany) 75
University of Melbourne (Australia) 52, 85
University of Paris (France) 74
University of Sydney (Australia) 67, 75, 92
University of Wollongong (Australia) 154
urbanisation 94, 117
urbanism 7, 14
Valli, Muriel (‘Auntie Val’) 12
Victoria (Australia)
Alfred Deakin 51-52, 54, 55-56
Chief Justice 75, 104
Delegation to first Colonial Conference
51-52, 54-56
drawl 44
film sound systems 142
geography teaching 43
gold-fields 9, 10
Minister for Public Education 43
parliament 52
Premier 52
pronunciation 44, 102
radio 125, 130
school curriculum 42-43, 106
school inspector 37-40, 43, 105
school system 39, 44
school teacher 104
speech 37, 43-44, 105-106
Western 69
Victoria Station (London, UK) 30
Victorian (period)
actors 66
ballads 59
plays 66
poetry 62, 64, 66
self-improvement 65
speech 69
stage 64-65
The Victorian Popular Ballad 60
Vienna (Austria) 2, 19-21, 23, 32
Vietor, Wilhelm 75
Village Bells: Sounds and Meaning in the
19th-Century French Countryside 1
virtualisation 32
visual 7, 14, 19, 69, 117, 119
historians on 1-2, 16
Vitai Lampada 61
Vitaphone 135, 141, 151
vocabulary, Australian 44, 83, 102
vocal staging 120
Vogel, David 32
voice
ABC 92-94
actors’ 66, 77
American 77
Anderson, Judith 79
Annie Besant’s 54-55
in antiquity 113-114
audible 89
Australian 85-95, 97-108
BBC 92-93
Bing Crosby’s 120
charismatic effect of 52
of children 38-40, 46, 101-102
and civilization 46
clear 89
coach 78
and community 12, 14, 15, 40, 114-115
cultured 80
Deakin’s 52
defining territory 4, 113-114
and deportment 90
digger’s 11
disembodied 26, 32, 123-124
domestic 4, 113
efficient use of 46
female 54-55, 90-92, 104
of friendship 124
and gentility 64
of Hitler 119-121
historians on 1-2, 159
human 15
ideal 40
and identity 4, 13, 26-27, 32
indistinct 87
informal 67
intimate 67
intonation and inflection 39
introspective 14
la-de-da 79-80
local 4, 113
and localisms 77, 79
of machines 22
mannish 54, 90-91
mass circulation of 118
mechanically reproduced 26, 27, 32,
113, 118-121
middle-class 60
and modernity 113-114, 121
musical 88-89
Naipaul, V.S., and 62-63
nasal 93
natural 39, 60, 68, 69, 88, 91-92, 93, 94,
108
Pauline Hanson’s 120-121
pleasing 39
and power 4, 11, 38, 51, 113-121
print and 4, 114-115, 118, 121
private 12
production 66, 77, 78, 94
public 38-39, 60, 118
pure 69
and radio 67, 92-93, 118-120, 123-124
radius of 113, 118
and regional accents 77
remixing of 4, 113, 120-121
shrill 89
singing 13
small 4, 113
soft 55
the soul’s true photograph 118
sourceless 26
strong 66
telephone 26
training 75-78, 87-95, 105-106
transnational 77-80
uniform 2, 40, 44-46
universal 25, 74, 79
weak 49
well-modulated 89, 90, 104
Whitman on 52
vowels
Australian 3, 86-87, 93, 101-107
Vox record company 25
vulgarisms 14, 45, 103
Walker, John 105
Walsh, M. 137
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia,
Pedir Coast Singapore, and China 99-100
Wanger, Walter 77
war 28, 29
of talkies 133, 134-135, 137-138, 141,
154
scene 12
sounds 15, 16
war cries 113
War of the Worlds 119
Ward, Charles 144
Ward, Russel 61
Warman, Edith (Skinner) 78
Warner Bros. 134, 136, 140
The Wasteland 27
Waterhouse, E. G. 75
Waterhouse, Richard 79
Watson, Alexander 89-90
Weill, Kurt 28
Welles, Orson 119
Wellesley College (USA) 76
Wellings, Ben 97, 107
Wellington (New South Wales, Australia)
75
Wellington (New Zealand) 147
Western Australia 37, 141
Western Electric-ERPI 133-135, 137,
139-142, 144-145, 148, 150-151, 153
Westminster College (Cambridge, UK) 89
Wheale, Nigel 114
whistles 15
White, Richard 61
Whitta, Clifford Nicholls (‘Nicky’), 130
Wildenbruch, Ernst von 118, 120, 121
Williams, Bransby 64, 65
Williams, Raymond 32
Win, Jack 126
Windsor P. Daggett Studio 78
Wintle disc system 145, 147, 149
wireless (see radio)
Wireless Weekly 123-126
Wollongong 128, 130, 154
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 79
women
as custodians of culture 116
and film
handwriting 117, 117
journals 90-91
masculine 54
and radio 124-125, 127, 128-130
and reading 117
singers 118
as speakers 54-55
as typists 117
voices 54, 90-92
and writing 114
women’s movement
international 79
Woolley, Bert (‘Uncle Bert’) 129
Wordsworth, William 62, 116
World English 1, 3, 73, 76-77, 79
world peace 77
world understanding 77
World War I (Great War) 15, 16, 19, 21, 27,
30, 35, 61-62, 67, 74, 75, 77
and broad Australian accent 107
and the New Woman 118
and The Sentimental Bloke 107
World War II 32, 84
Woy Woy (Australia) 128
writing 37, 38, 45, 67, 101, 102, 117
historical 15
and sound 118
and women 114, 117
Yecies, Brian 4, 133-158
Yorkshire (UK) 45, 100
Yorkshireman 97