Australian composers have long referenced Indigenous music and culture in their works. A new platform paper suggests a more collaborative way forward.
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The PM's Spotify playlists are significant as they offer insight into what he sees as valuable in popular culture. They also remind us how women are excluded from the music canon.
African Australians contribute to all major musical genres - from dance to hip hop and beyond.
Australia is home to a diverse range of female hip hop artists. Here's our guide to five of the best.
A new, permanent exhibition, which pays tribute to Australian popular music, represents a coming of age for our industry.
High-profile awards ceremonies are often only as interesting as the controversies they create. The 2016 ARIA Awards has started strongly in this area. Although the main ceremony is still a month away…
Punk gave women a voice; changed the dynamic between audiences and performers and offered music fans a DIY smorgasbord. On its 40th anniversary, that's worth celebrating.
The Avalanches' legendary first album, Since I Left You, was a modern classic, built from more than 3500 music samples. Sixteen years on, they're finally releasing a second one - but will it resonate in an age when everyone samples?
Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space was a punk circus/social document that alienated many. But on the film's 30th anniversary, it seems the world has caught up with it and a new audience of fans has emerged.
Cold Chisel’s Khe Sanh was played at Reclaim Australia rallies in various cities last weekend – but won't be again, after a public statement by the band's frontman, Jimmy Barnes. Was it a good song choice?
Blood + Thunder offers an entertaining insight into the development of the "Australian Sound" – but why do the producers fail to acknowledge the influence on the blues on that sound?
Bassist and lead singer of The Church, Steve Kilbey is one of Australia’s most prolific musicians. The band released their 25th album, Further Deeper, in October and will play The Queenscliff Music Festival…
Wednesday night sees the 2014 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards honouring the greats of Aussie pop. The ARIAs has a much more international feel this year, with the largest ever overseas…
Since the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) award nominations were released last week much of the talk has been about how 80% of the nominations for album of the year were released “independently…
Last week’s announcement that Melbourne’s Bennetts Lane Jazz Club will close in nine months came as a shock to most in the Australian jazz community. Bennetts Lane has been a focal point for local jazz…
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At the Melbourne Writers’ Festival this week, a panel of poets, writers and performers will read and reflect on the poetry of the first world war. Among them is Mark Seymour, the former frontman of Hunters…
Australia’s most distinguished composer Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) has left a magnificent legacy – his music. Sculthorpe pioneered a uniquely Australian sound. The distinctiveness of his music emerges…
Australia’s national youth station, Triple J, has come in for some criticism lately, with a spate of articles accusing it of homogenising Australian music tastes or excluding too many local acts from the…
Digital production and distribution has made it easier to access music than at any other time in human history. But no one starts at “A” in iTunes or on YouTube’s homepage and listens to everything. There…
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Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer - Urban Planning, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Head, Interactive Composition , Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Music, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate in History of Culture and Race, University of Sydney
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Ph.D. Candidate in Media, University of Adelaide
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Academic tutor, school of design, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer Composition, Australian National University
