ABSTRACT
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 Aotearoan/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 Aotearoan/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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|39 pages
Place-Making and Music-Making
part 2|37 pages
Rethinking the Musical Event
part 3|36 pages
Musical Transformations: Decline and Renewal
chapter 8|10 pages
The Making and Remaking of Brisbane and Hobart
part 4|59 pages
Global Sounds, Local Identity
chapter 10|12 pages
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
chapter 13|11 pages
Giving Back in Wellington
part |14 pages
Coda
chapter 15|13 pages
Site-ing the Sounds
part |13 pages
Afterword