Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Studies in Popular Music
Herausgeber: Brunt, Shelley; Stahl, Geoff

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Produktbeschreibung

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Australian or Aotearoa/New Zealand popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making; Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781138195691
• ISBN-10: 1138195693
• Artikelnr.: 51559059

Autorenporträt

Shelley Brunt is Senior Lecturer in the Music Industry program at RMIT University, Australia. Geoff Stahl is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: This is My City: Reimagining Popular Music Down Under (
Shelley Brunt and Geoff Stahl) / Part I: Place-Making and Music-Making /
1. Singing about the City: The Lyrical Construction of Perth (Jon Stratton
and Adam Trainer) / 2. The Phoenix and the Bootleg Sessions: A Canberra
Venue for Local Music (Julie Rickwood and Emma Williams) / 3. Lorde's
Auckland: Stepping out of "the Bubble" (Tony Mitchell) / Part II:
Rethinking the Musical Event / 4. Popular Music and Heritage-Making in
Melbourne (Catherine Strong) / 5. The "Dunedin Sound" Now: Contemporary
Perspectives on Dunedin's Musical Legacy (Oli Wilson and Michael Holland) /
6. The Construction of Latin American Musical Identity in Melbourne (Mara
Favoretto) / Part III: Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal / 7.
Outside the Square: Songs for Christchurch in a Time of Earthquakes (
Shelley Brunt) / 8. The Making and Remaking of Brisbane and Hobart: Music
Scenes in Australia's "Second-Tier" Cities (Andy Bennett and Ian Rogers) /
9. Urban Melancholy: Tales from Wellington's Music Scene (Geoff Stahl) /
Part IV: Global Sounds, Local Identity / 10. Singing the Lord's Song in a
Strange City: An Examination of the Nexus Between the Southern Gospel Choir
and the City of Hobart (Andrew Legg, Carolyn Philipott and Paul Blacklow) /
11. "I Rep for My Mob": Blackfellas Rappin' from Down-Unda (Chiara
Minestrelli) / 12. Technomotor Cities: Adelaide, Detroit and the Electronic
Music Pioneers (Cathy Adamek) / 13. Giving Back in Wellington: Deep
Relations, Whakapapa and Reciprocity in Transnational Hip Hop (April
Henderson) / 14. The Music City: Australian Contexts (Shane Homan) / Coda /
15. Site-ing the Sounds: Discovering Australia and New Zealand's Popular
Music in the United States (Kyle Barnett and Robert Sloane) / Afterword /
16. Negotiating Trans-Tasman Musical Identities: Conversations with Neil
and Tim Finn (Liz Giuffre) / A Selected Bibliography of Books on Popular
Music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand /Notes on Contributors / Index