| Description |
viii, 76 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Platform papers : quarterly essays on the performing arts ; no. 32, July 2012 |
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Platform papers (Currency House) ; 32
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| Contents |
1. Closing time -- 2. Persecution blues: worth, disdain & cultural apartheid -- 3. Rooms for the memories: the gigs and the life -- 4. Door deal: the birth, death and golden age of pub rock -- 5. Terminal buzz: the rest of pub rock's life -- 6. The road goes on forever: policy, action and elephants in the rooms |
| Summary |
"In 2010, when Melbourne's music venue the Tote Hotel was forced to shut down, it incited a public outcry that crikey.com called the year's 'most significant event in cultural policy'. Why does this most popular of the performing arts seem always to be so under siege? Australia's live music circuit has long been celebrated as one of the world's best, but if places like the Tote keep closing down, where will the next Nick Cave, AC/DC or Paul Kelly come from? Research shows that the venue-based industry has an annual output of $1.21 billion, creates 15,000 full-time jobs and draws audiences of over 41 million. Clinton Walker takes Platform Papers deep into the nether regions of sticky carpet, dodgy house PAs and moshpit etiquette, to defend the cultural vitality being lost and calls for a change to the state and council regulations that stand in the way of restoration. Is it not time, he asks, to bring this most popular form of music in from the cold?" -- Publisher |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"July 2012" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Music trade -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Music -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Popular music -- Australia -- History and criticism.
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Rock music -- Performance -- Australia.
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Rock music -- Performances -- Australia.
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Rock music -- Australia.
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| ISBN |
0987211412 |
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9780987211415 |
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