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Subject(s)

• Music—Australia—History and criticism [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Australia—Music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Popular music—Australia—History and criticism [Browse]
• Music—Social aspects—Australia [Browse]

Editor

• Harris, Amanda, 1976- [Browse]
• Bracknell, Clint, 1981- [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]
• Cambridge companions to music. Topics [More in this series]

Summary note

As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of musical experiences in the breadth of musical practice that flows though Australia, including Indigenous song, art music, children's music, jazz, country, popular music forms and music that blurs genre boundaries. Organised in four themed sections, the chapters present the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists to explore communities of practice and music's ongoing entanglements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural practices, the influence of places near and far, of continuity, tradition, adaptation, and change. In the final chapter, we pick up where these chapters have taken us, asking what is next for music in Australia for the future.

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Contents

• Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
• Part 1. Continuities. How Yolnu Songs Recount Deep Histories of International Trade across the Arafura Sea ; Torres Strait Islander Musics : Tradition, Travel and Change ; Singing Country in the land now known as Australia ; The Spiritual in Australia: Practices, Discourse, and Transformations 1879-1950
• Part 2. Encounters. Cultivating a European concert culture in colonial Sydney and Hobart : 1826-40 ; An Early Australian Musical Modernism ; Country Music : Australianizing an American Tradition? ; The Development of the Australian Pop Charts and the Changing Meaning of the 'Number One' Single ; Artist Perspective - Didjeridu on the art music stage
• Part 3. Diversities. Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal ; New Directions in Australian Art Music : the Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual ; Artists' Perspectives - Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia ; Artist Perspective - Australian EDM in the 1990s : Finding the Magic Between the Art and Commerce of the Dancefloor ; Artists' Perspectives - Jazz in Australia - The State of Play ; Diverse Musics : Shaping Music through Cultural Difference ; Chinese Music Performance in Australia ; African Musics in Australia ; Artists' Perspectives - Ngarra-burria Indigenous composers and their interventions in art music practice
• Part 4. Institutions. Iconic Musical Sites in Australia ; Festivals as a Forum for Indigenous Public Ceremony from Remote Australia ; The Australian Children's TV Music Phenomenon ; Youth Broadcasting and Music Festivals in Australia ; Australian Multicultural and Folk Festivals ; Learning from Music in Australia.

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ISBN

• 9781108997935
• 1108997937
• 9781108998123
• 1108998127
• 9781108991209
• 1108991203

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