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Alice Garner

Alice Garner is a teacher, historian and actor who has worked in Melbourne theatre, television, film and radio. She holds a PhD in French History from the University of Melbourne and is currently based at the Faculty of Education in the University of Melbourne. In 2021, she was appointed President of Oral History Victoria.

Alice Garner reviews ‘Dance Hall And Picture Palace: Sydney’s romance with modernity’ by Jill Julius Matthews

June–July 2005, no. 272 01 June 2005
It’s Sydney – and Saturday night. The Great Jazz Orgy has begun … a million people are moving, turning, swaying, shuffling to the accompaniment of pianola, gramophone, or jazz band, and are beating out the barbaric time of syncopated melody. (Home magazine, 1923) Historian Jill Julius Matthews takes us back to Sydney between the 1890s and the late 1920s, when cinema and the phonograph were ... (read more)