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An entertaining and scholarly account of popular music-making in Australia, with an assessment of its contribution to Australian musical heritage. The range of concerns explored here are broad, from the improvisatory practices of band members in the colonial period, to effects music for the silent cinema, through to the European-influenced avant-garde of the 1960s.
'This is a remarkable resource for any serious student of the history of musical extemporization' Craig Scott in Musicology Australia, Vol. 29
For more information and reviews, visit John Whiteoak's website: www.ausmdr.com
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-543-8 | PB
AuthorDr John Whiteoak is a well known musicologist and music historian. Since the mid-1980s he has lectured and tutored in jazz studies and Australian and experimental music studies. He is currently a research archivist at the Department of Music, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He also teaches Australian and Asian popular music and culture at Monash University. He was the biographer of the late Keith Humble, a jazz musician, pianist and composer.
As a performer (keyboards, brass and voice), Whiteoak's experience in classical, popular and experimental music is impressively extensive. |
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