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25 - Learning from Music in Australia

from Part IV - Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Clint Bracknell  and
Amanda Harris
Edited by
Amanda Harris  and
Clint Bracknell
Amanda Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Clint Bracknell
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Summary

This concluding chapter considers the dynamics of music and place, issues of diversity, and the impact of Indigenous artists on building bridges to a whole history of music in this place. Reflecting on the four interlinked themes guiding this Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia: Continuities, Encounters, Diversities, and Institutions, it takes up musical threads not covered elsewhere in the volume, discussing pub rock and hip hop to consider dynamics of exclusion, inclusion, and identity. In advocating for a move away from anthropocentrism toward ecocentrism in considering the relationships between music and the place now known as Australia, it simultaneously foregrounds unresolved tensions associated with Indigeneity, settler-colonialism, and prejudice in music that are ultimately intertwined with concepts of place and belonging.

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ecomusicologypub rockhip hopIndigenous musicnational identitymusical diversity
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 395 - 411
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Allen, A. S. and Dawe, K. (eds.), Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (New York: Routledge, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bamblett, L., Myers, F. and Rowse, T. (eds.), The Difference Identity Makes: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian Cultural Fields (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2019).Google Scholar
Barney, K. (ed.), Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harris, A., Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970 (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stratton, J., Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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