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.

Explores the breadth of musical practice in Australia with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musics at its very heart.

About the Author
Amanda Harris is an ARC Future Fellow and Director of PARADISEC Sydney Unit. Her monograph Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-70 was shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Prize in Australian History, and Music, Dance and the Archive, co-edited with Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy, won the 2023 Mander Jones Award. Clint Bracknell FAHA is a Noongar song-maker from the south of Western Australia. He is an ARC Future Fellow and Deputy Chair of AIATSIS. Bracknell received InASA's 2020 Barrett Award for Australian Studies, has co-translated world-first Indigenous language works in film and theatre, and releases music under the name Maatakitj.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108994002
Author Amanda Harris
Format Paperback
Page Count 450
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 770g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 23mm