This thesis examines the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne in the context of the history of museums, particularly those in Europe, the United States and Australia, during the lifetime of its creator, Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961).Drawing on the collection of the Grainger Museum itself, and on both primary and secondary sources relating to museum development in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, the thesis demonstrates that the Grainger Museum reflects many of the concerns of museums of Grainger’s day, especially of the years prior to his relocation to the United States in 1914. Many of those concerns were products of the nationalistic endeavours arising from political upheavals and redefinitions in nineteenth-century Europe, the imperialism which reached its zenith by the First World War, and the racialist beliefs, hierarchies and anxieties accompanying that imperialism. In particular, Grainger’s lifelong concern with racial identity manifested in hierarchical and evolutionary museum interpretations typical of his earlier years. I explore the paradox of Grainger’s admiration for the musical and material culture of the racial ‘other’ and his racially supremacist views, and the way he presented these two apparently conflicting ideologies in his Museum.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1998. / Adviser: Sheila Emerson. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 31, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Psychology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, June 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [129]-136).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1995. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [213]-222).

"In its original form, this study was a doctoral dissertation ... Harvard University." / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (PhD)-Open University. BLDSC no.DXN017034.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral--Universität Munster, 1989). / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-529).