'Like him or loathe him'
critical reactions to André Rieu in Australia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v13i1.7Keywords:
arts funding, classical music, midcult, RieuAbstract
Since 2007, André Rieu CDs, DVDs, television shows and concerts have saturated Australian media. Consequently, Rieu’s popularity—the extent of which is remarkable for a classical musician—has drawn significant attention from commentators, critics and musicians, much of which is negative in tone. This article describes the criticisms made of Rieu in the Australian media, and explores the socio-cultural motivations for these reactions. It explores Rieu’s position as a liminal classical and ‘popular’ musician, and proposes that Rieu can be viewed as a symptom of a diminishing cultural hierarchy. It furthermore associates criticism of the Rieu ‘phenomenon’ with anxieties about Arts status and funding in Australia, and proposes that disapproval of Rieu is used as a proxy for more general condemnations of Australian tastes.
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—2008d. ‘André’s Australian Dream’ (November): 29.
—2008e. ‘Of Castles and Clocks’ (December): 48–49.
Lindholm, C. 2008. Culture and Authenticity. Malden, MA: Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bdj.2007.1193
MacDonald, D. 1953. ‘A Theory of Mass Culture’. In Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication Volume 1: Culture and Mass Culture, ed. Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn and Edward Shils, 165–83. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey.
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McCabe, K. 2008. ‘Romantic Rieu’s Rhythm of Life’. The Daily Telegraph, 27 November, at http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/romantic-rieus-rhythm-of-life/story-e6frezz0-1111118149809 (accessed 14 September 2010).
Moran, J. 2009. ‘He’s a Sex Symbol with Strings Attached’. The Daily Telegraph, 27 December, at http://tinyurl.com/9vb3fa6 (accessed 14 September 2010).
Morrison, R. 2008. ‘Nigel Kennedy Returns to the BBC Proms’. Times Online, 11 July, at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/proms/article4310800.ece (accessed 14 September 2010).
Mossman, K. 2010. ‘André Rieu, Waltz and All’. The Sunday Times, 2 April, at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article7084665.ece (accessed 14 September 2010).
The Music Show. 2008. (radio program) Guest speaker Richard Tognetti. ABC Radio National, 1 November.
Nancarrow, C., P. Nancarrow and J. Page. 2001. ‘An Analysis of the Concept of Cool and its Marketing Implications’. Journal of Consumer Behaviour 1/4: 311–22.
Oxford Music Online. 2012a. ‘The Oxford Dictionary of Music: Classical’, at http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t237/e2198?q=classical&article_section=all&search=article&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit (accessed 28 February 2012).
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Palathingal, G. 2010. ‘The World Tunes into Temper Trap’. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July, at http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-world-tunes-into-temper-trap-20100715-10cgu.html (accessed 15 September 2010).
Ross, A. 1989. No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
Russ, S. 2008. ‘Reflections of a Concert Goer’, at http://harmonyparlor.blogspot.com/ (accessed 26 May 2010).
Scott, Derek B. 1990. ‘Music and Sociology for the 1990s: A Changing Critical Perspective’. Musical Quarterly 74: 385–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mq/74.3.385
Stapleton, R. 2008. ‘Recession-proof André Rieu’. Private Media/Crikey, 13 November, at http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/13/recession-proof-andre-rieu/ (accessed 14 September 2010).
Stevens, L. 2010. ‘How André Rieu Won My Heart’. The Wall Street Journal, 4 June, at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284543517936242.html (accessed 14 September 2010).
Sutherland, M. 2010. ‘André Rieu: The Billboard Q&A’. Billboard, 7 May, at http://www.billboard.com/features/andr%C3%A9-rieu-the-billboard-q-a-1004089453.story#/features/andr%E9-rieu-the-billboard-q-a-1004089453.story (accessed 13 September 2010).
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Symes, C. 1997. ‘Beating up the Classics: Aspects of a Compact Discourse’. Popular Music 16/1: 81–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000000702
Ticketek Australia. 2010. ‘ANDRÉ RIEU 2010’, at http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/showNE.aspx?sh=ANDRERIE10 (accessed 13 September 2010).
VolksmusikFan2. 2009. ‘André Rieu & Heino—Sierra Madre (Zauber der Musik—Live in Maastricht 2009)’, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CUVFQdkZgo (accessed 14 September 2010).
Webster, S. 2009. ‘Review: Barry Humphries and the Australian Chamber Orchestra’. Trespass Magazine, 20 December, at http://www.trespassmag.com/review-barry-humphries-and-the-australian-chamber-orchestra/ (accessed 14 September 2010).
Weingarten, G. 2007. ‘Symphony in Duh! Major’. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April, at http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/symphony-in-duh-major/2007/04/13/1175971347705.html (accessed 10 November 2010).
Whittington, S. 2008. ‘Like Fabio with a Violin’. Adelaide Now, 22 May, at http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/music/like-fabio-with-a-violin/story-e6freeuu-1111116425812 (accessed 14 September 2010).
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Keith, S. (2012). ’Like him or loathe him’: critical reactions to André Rieu in Australia. Perfect Beat, 13(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v13i1.7
