Title: From pop to punk to postmodernism : popular music and Australian culture from the 1960s to the 1990s /
Authors: Hayward, Philip.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Rock music Australia History and criticism.; Popular music Australia History and criticism.; Rock music Social aspects Australia.; Popular culture Australia; Music Social aspects; Arts and society Australia.
Abstract: Is there anything distinctive about Australian popular music? Or are Kylie Minogue and Midnight Oil simply part of the international music market? What about Aboriginal bands such as Yothu Yindi? Are they another version of different story to tell? From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism takes a close look at Australian popular music and the context in which it is created, heard and sold. It looks at record companies and radio stations, music video and television, analysing their influence on the music we hear. It looks at the pub rock scene and the barriers this presents for female rock musicians. It also looks at how music: fits into youth culture: the creation of pop music in the 1950s and 1960s, the punk scene of the early 1980s and the recent phenomenon of the dance party.
Contents: Introduction: Charting Australia: music, history and identity / Philip Hayward -- I. Institutions and Contexts. 1. Australian popular music and its contexts / Graeme Turner. 2. Tjungaringanyi: Aboriginal rock / John Castles. 3. Magpies, lyrebirds and emus: record labels, ownership and orientation / Marcus Breen. 4. Heritage Rock: pop music on Australian radio / John Potts. 5. From Bandstand and Six O'Clock Rock to MTV and Rage: rock music on Australian television / Sally Stockbridge -- II. Generations of Change. 6. Growing up (uncool): pop music and youth culture in the '50s and '60s / Craig McGregor. 7. Music, counter-culture and the Vietnam era / Louise Douglas and Richard Geeves. 8. Death rockers of the world unite! Melbourne 1978-80 -- punk rock or no punk rock? / Vikki Riley. 9. Be my woman rock 'n' roll / Vivien Johnson. 10. Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Midnight Oil and the politics of rock / Simon Steggels. 11. Kylie: the making of a star / Idena Rex.