Illegal Harmonies by Andrew Ford national-identity but behind language is something

but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture

Leisel candidly describes what it’s like to be thrust into the limelight so young

Klaus Neumann is a historian based at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research

it is superbly written

He looks closely at patriotism and its distortions

Illegal Harmonies by Andrew Ford national-identity but behind language is somethingListen, What Do You Hear? We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called 'illegal harmony'. In response to the noisiest century in history, modern composers have consistently