Popular Music and Australian Culture

Download or read book Popular Music and Australian Culture written by Bruce Johnson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores aspects of popular music and culture from the twentieth century to the present day. It brings together contributions challenging or reassessing assumptions about how individual, subjective experience comes to terms with modernity. While the emphasis is on Australian case studies, the essays here raise larger questions, ranging from our disempowerment as consumers demanding instant gratification to our ambiguous status as observers of and participants in historical change. They examine the complex relationship between sound and visual media in the formation of various communities, and how this relates to daily lived experience.