Sounds Australian, Journal of the Australian Music Centre, No. 63 2005

Fair Game: festivals take on Australian music
Edited by David Young

Retail price: $7.70

 

This edition explores the festival industry in Australia and asks 'how are festivals engaging with new Australian music?'.

Articles

  • Editorial: Music as festival currency [David Young]
  • Festivals: now and then [Malcolm Gillies]
  • Moving away from the shopping trolley [Brett Sheehey]
  • Feast or famine [Robyn Archer]
  • All year round [Karen Hadfield]
  • Stephen Page's two-bob festival [Stephen Page]
  • When is a guitar festival not a guitar festival? [Adrian Walter]
  • Reenacting Yeperenye Festival [David Bridie]
  • Transplanting traditions [John McAuslan]
  • Thuringowa River Festival [Michael Whiticker]
  • Who's playing at Woodford this year? [Michael Peterson]
  • Big on community [Jason Cross]
  • Composing on a totally huge scale [Tos Mahoney]
  • New work: might quest [Lindy Hume]
  • From A to B to Q [Helen Cole]
  • Remixing consumption and creativity [Brandon Saul]
  • Bravely demanding new Australian music [Lyndon Terracini]

Reviews

CDs
  • Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, Series V [reviewed by Roger Dean]
Books
  • Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, ed. John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell [reviewed by Malcolm Gillies]
  • Between Two Worlds: the Music of David Lumsdaine, Michael Hall [reviewed by Michael Hooper]
  • Musicianship in the 21st Century, ed. Sam Leong [review by Neryl Jeanneret]