The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia

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.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Harris, Amanda (University of Sydney) Bracknell Harris
• Assisted by: Clint Bracknell (Editor), Amanda Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781108994002
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99400-2
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on demand; Cambridge Companions to Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Music, History: specific events & topics, Australia, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, History of Music, Social and cultural history, Theory of music & musicology, Australasian & Pacific history, Folk & traditional music, Australasian and Pacific history, Theory of music and musicology, Traditional and folk music, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia