Author: DAVIDSON, JIM.
Title: Lyrebird Rising. Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xiv, 578; portrait frontispiece, 8 coloured illustrations, 67 b/w. illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, (1994). Lyrebird Rising re-creates the ambience of Melbourne in the twenties, Paris in the thirties, and London in the fifties; it also discusses expatriatism, explores the paths open to a dynamic women at the time, and examines the changes in musical taste that were set in motion by the rise of musicology, radio, and the gramophone record. Indeed it doubles as one of the first histories of a recording company.

Keywords: Australian biography theatre Louise Hanson-Dyer Australia history music arts