Maintaining 'Rage'
Counting down without a host for over 20 years
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v10i1.39Keywords:
Australian popular music, Australian media, television, music videoAbstract
Rage is a unique music program in the Australian music media, having recently celebrated 20 years on air. This article will explore Rage's success in context of its importance as a television program and musical outlet, examining the show's continued development in detail.
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Green, L. 2002. How Popular Musicians Learn. London: Ashgate.
Grossberg, L. 1993. ‘The Media Economy of Rock Culture: Cinema, Post-Modernity and Authenticity’. In Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader, ed. S. Frith, A. Goodwin and L. Grossberg, 185–209. London: Routledge.
Hancock, M. 2006. ‘Rage and the Artists’ Persona: Creation, Consumption and Expectation in Music Television’. Metro Magazine 148: 164–71.
Harrison, T. 2005. The Australian Film and TV Companion, 2nd ed. Melbourne: Citrus Press.
Herd, N. 1988. Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Australian Content Inquiry Discussion Paper: Variety Programmes on Commercial Television. Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal.
Hetherington, L. 1987. ‘David Debuts in the Big Time’. TV Week, 11 April: 46.
Holmes, P. 2000. ‘Spin Doctor’. The Sun Herald, 14 May: 5.
Holmes, S. 2004. ‘ “Reality Goes Pop”: Reality TV, Popular Music and Narratives of Stardom in Pop Idol’. Television and New Media 5/2: 147–72. doi:10.1177/1527476403255833
Huber, A. 2007. ‘Top 40 in Australia: Popular Music and the Mainstream’. In Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, ed. S. Homan and T. Mitchell. Tasmania: ACYS Publishing.
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Jacka, L. 2006. ‘The Future of Public Service Broadcasting’. In The Media and Communications in Australia, ed. S. Cunningham and G. Turner, 344–56. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
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Moran, A., and C. Keating. 2007. The Historical Dictionary of Australian Radio and Television. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts 18. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press.
Negus, K., and J. Street. 2002. ‘Introduction to “Music and Television” Special Issue’. Popular Music 21/3: 245–48. doi:10.1017/S0261143002002167
Place, N., and M. Roberts. 2006. 50 Years of Television in Australia. Melbourne: Hordie Grant Books.
Purcell, C. 1987. ‘Hosts for Music Link-up Chosen’. The Sun Herald, 5 April: 48.
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Straw, W. 1993. ‘Popular Music and Postmodernism in the 1980s’. In Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader, ed. S. Frith, A. Goodwin and L. Grossberg, 3–21. London: Routledge.
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Unattributed. 1987. Sydney Morning Herald, TV Guide supplement, 13 April: 13
Published
2009-04-30
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Giuffre, L. (2009). Maintaining ’Rage’: Counting down without a host for over 20 years. Perfect Beat, 10(1), 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v10i1.39
