Uses of the past: settler culture, regional identity and the modern nation

Lee, Christopher (1998) Uses of the past: settler culture, regional identity and the modern nation. Australian Studies, 13 (2). pp. 55-69. ISSN 0954-0954

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Abstract

Over six days from the eighteenth to the twenty-third of March in 1924 the regional city of Grenfell coordinated a sustained civic celebration that it called the 'Back to Grenfell Week'. A commemorative festival of substantial proportions, 'Back to Grenfell Week' was intended to encourage former residents to return to the district, honour the pioneers, and promote the central New South Wales region.

My discussion of the 'Back to Grenfell Week' Festival of 1924 and the 'Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of the Arts' from 1958 is an exploration of the expressed tension between these two imperatives and their effects upon the strategically shifting social identities of a regional Australian culture.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Additional Information:	Deposited with the permission of the publisher.
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Arts - Department of Humanities and International Studies
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007 00:49
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2013 22:39
Uncontrolled Keywords:	regional Australian identity, regional festivals, local history
Fields of Research :	21 History and Archaeology > 2103 Historical Studies > 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200211 Postcolonial Studies 16 Studies in Human Society > 1604 Human Geography > 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/1686

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