Graeme Turner

John Farnham's Whispering Jack (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501382086
• Artikelnr.: 63280729

Autorenporträt

Graeme Turner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is one of the founding figures of media and cultural studies in Australia, and a leading figure internationally. He was one of the earliest to undertake academic research on popular music in Australia, producing articles, chapters, and a co-edited book over the 1980s and 1990s, before turning his attention to television and new media in the 2000s. He has published over 25 books including Understanding Celebrity (2013) and National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Backstory: From Johnny to John The Australian music
industry in the 80s The changes in radio The task ahead 2. Whispering Jack,
the Album Good songs, good beats, and the energy of rock The 'whiz-bang
album' The Voice So, let's play the album Timeless 3. 'You're The Voice'
The unofficial national anthem Australian popular music and cultural
nationalism 4. And then.. The 'ordinary' rock star The Farnham audience
Notes References Index