The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
Author(s): Edited by Amanda Harris, Clint Bracknell
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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.
- Places Indigenous music making and place at the centre of music in Australia
- Provides an opportunity for readers to understand music in Australia as a story of long and continuous cultural practices, as well as contemporary and changing
- Captures the dynamic, fluid nature of music and the contestation in the term 'Australia'
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