ABSTRACT
As music and media scholars, the authors have devoted effort to examining and explaining the contexts, especially through cultural intermediaries' scholarship and cultural industries' research writ large. The memories evoked by their conversation suggest that the North American reception of Australia and New Zealand's popular music in the 1980s and 1990s was shaped by a number of socio-cultural realities. During the 1980s, American MTV and cable television was crucial in opening up pipelines to US listenership. Australian Iggy Azalea and New Zealander Lorde have both been significant in mainstream pop music in recent years, while in indie rock, Melbourne's Courtney Barnett has been a ubiquitous presence, appearing in some of the country's biggest musical festivals and media outlets. Online music magazines such as Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, and Tiny Mix Tapes have been key in publicizing such reissues for consumers.
