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• Preliminary Pages
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A ‘Roaring Decade’: Listening to the Australian gold-fields Diane Collins
• Chapter 2. A Complex Kind of Training: Cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe James Donald
• Chapter 3. Speech, Children and the Federation Movement Alan Atkinson
• Chapter 4. Sounds of History: Oratory and the fantasy of male power Marilyn Lake
• Chapter 5. Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution and the Art of Recitation Peter Kirkpatrick
• Chapter 6. World English? How an Australian Invented ‘Good American Speech’ Desley Deacon
• Chapter 7. ‘The Australian Has a Lazy Way of Talking’: Australian character and accent, 1920s-1940s Joy Damousi
• Chapter 8. Towards a History of the Australian Accent Bruce Moore
• Chapter 9. Voice, Power and Modernity Bruce Johnson
• Chapter 10. Modernity, Intimacy and Early Australian Commercial Radio Bridget Griffen-Foley
• Chapter 11. Talking Salvation for the Silent Majority: Projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema, 1929-1933 Brian Yecies
• Authors
• Index