WORLD MUSIC, INDIGENOUS MUSIC AND MUSIC TELEVISION IN AUSTRALIA

Authors

  • Tony Mitchell University of Technology Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v1i1.28571

Keywords:

world music, music TV, rap

Abstract

This article surveys the air time and attention given to Black and non-Anglo musicians in the Australian music television market, finding that mainstream, Anglo performers continue to prevail and examining some of the possible reasons for this, including the suggestion that politically and socially conservative view points resist the often radical lyrics and performance styles of rap and non-mainstream genres.

Author Biography

  • Tony Mitchell, University of Technology Sydney

    Tony Mitchell is honorary research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Dario Fo: People’s Court Jester (London: Methuen: 1999), Popular Music and Local Identity: Pop, Rock and Rap in Europe and Oceania (University of Leicester Press: 1996) and the editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip hop outside the USA (Wesleyan University Press: 2001). He co-edited Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies: 2008), North meets South: Popular Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand, (Perfect Beat: 1994), and Home, Land and Sea: Situating Popular Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland: Pearson Education: 2011). He has also published numerous articles on music and film in various countries, including Iceland, and writes reviews for the Australian magazines Music Forum and Cyclic Defrost.

References

Frith,S. ( ed) (1989) World music, politics and social change, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Gilroy P. (1991) 'Sounds Authentic: Black music, ethnicity and the challenge of a changing same', Black Music Rese!lfch Journal, vlO n2.

Glanvill R. (1989) 'World Music Mining: The International Trade in New Music', in Hanly, F. & May, T.(1989) (eds) Rhythms of the World, London:BBC Books.

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Published

2015-09-29

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Mitchell, T. (2015). WORLD MUSIC, INDIGENOUS MUSIC AND MUSIC TELEVISION IN AUSTRALIA. Perfect Beat, 1(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v1i1.28571