Graeme David Smith
Northcote
Telephone: 
+(61) (0)3 94810288
PUBLICATIONS
Books
and Articles
"John
Cage's `Roaratorio': The Uses of Confusion" Contact. A Journal of
Contemporary Music 27. (1983) pp 43-5
"Making
Folk Music" Meanjin 4/44(1985) pp 477-90. Republished in Jenny Lee,
Phillip Mead and Gerald Murnane (eds), The Temperament of Generations: Fifty
Years of Meanjin, Melbourne University Press, 1990
"Irish
Music in
"Folklore,
Fakelore and Folkloric" in Ron Edwards (ed) Proceedings of the 3rd
National Folklore Conference Australian Folk Trust,
"My
Love is in
"Irish
Music in
Australian
Popular Music
(School text with accompanying cassette) Australian Music Centre,
"Irish
meets Folk: The Genesis of the Bush Band" in Margaret Kartomi and Stephen
Blum (eds), Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
Currency Press, Brisbane and
"Folklore
and Popular Culture" in Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore
Gwenda Davey and Graham Seal (eds) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1993, pp
327-334.
"The
Country Voice" Arena Magazine 1 (1992), pp 38-40
"Australian
Country Music and the hillbilly yodel" Popular Music vol 13 no 1,
1994, pp 297-312.
"A.L.Lloyd
and Australian Folk Revival Singing Style" Australian Folklore
Society Journal No 34, Dec 1996, pp 747-752.
reissued
at Folk Australia
"Folk
Music" in Warren Bebbington (ed) The Oxford Companion to Australian
Music Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997, pp 220-224
"Irish
Music" in Warren Bebbington (ed) The Oxford Companion to Australian
Music Oxford University Press,
"Modern-style
Irish Accordion Playing: History, Biography and Class" Ethnomusicology
Vol 41. No 3, Fall 1997, pp 433-463
"WOMADELAIDE
97" Arena Journal No 8, 1997, pp 17-22
- with
Karl Neuenfeldt "Romancing the Drone: The Contemporary Didjeridu in
In Companion
to Music and Dance in Australia Currency Press, Sydney (forthcoming) (1999)
several entries:
"The
Australian Folk Movement" (4500 words), "Australian Country
Music"(4500 words), "Bush Band"(600 words), Yodelling(600
words).
"Popular
Music" in Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape ed Caitlin
Rowley, Australian Music Centre, 1998, pp 28-35
"
“Celtic
"Australia:
Traditional Music: III Popular Immigrant Musics" in The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd Edition) ed Stanley Sadie and John
Tyrell, Macmillan,
“Accordion”
and “Concertina” in John Shepherd et al (eds) Continuum Encyclopedia of
Popular Music of the World , Continuum, New York, 2003, vol 2. pp 195-6,
298-9.
“Bush
Band”, “Country Music”, “Folk-music revival”, “Irish Traditions” and
“Yodelling”, in Aline Scott-Maxwell and John Whiteoak (eds) The Currency
Companion to Music and Dance in Australia , Currency Press, Sydney. 2003
pp. 100-1, 195-197, 286-9, 364-66, 685
“Celtic
Australia; Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music and the New Nationalism” in
Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe eds Martin Stokes and Phillip V.
Bohlman, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2003, pp. 73-92.
“Yodelling
and vocal breaks in Country Music” in Roots and Crossovers: Australian
Country Music vol 2 , eds Philip Hayward and Geoff Walden, AICM
Press, Gympie, 2004. pp 1-12.
“Ted
Egan: Bringing it Home” in Market and Margins: Australian Country Music vol
3 , eds Mark Evans and Geoff Walden, AICM Press, Gympie, 2005. pp
180-202.
"My
Love is in
Singing
“Community and Nation in Folk,
Country and Multicultural Music in Australia” in Ian Collinson and Mark Evans
(eds) Sounds and Selves IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference, Wellington,
IASPM , Australia New Zealand Branch and Perfect Beat Publications, Sydney,
2007 pp 25-30
“Playing with Policy: Music,
multiculturalism and the Boite” [Paper in special issue: Music, Migration and
Multiculturalism. Dreyfus, Kay and Crotty, Joel (eds).] Victorian Historical Journal, v.78, no.2, Nov 2007: 152-169.
“Folk Music: Movements, scenes
and styles” in Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell (eds) Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, ACYS
Publishing, Hobart, 2008 pp 151-66
“Irish Button Accordion: From
press and draw and back again” The World
of Music, v. 50 no 3 (2008), pp 15-36
“Public
Multicultural Music and the Australian State” Music and Politics, vol3, no2,
2009 , http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/archive/2009-2/smith.html.
Reviews
and Comments
Comment
on Jill Stubington "Preservation and Conservation of Australian
Traditional Musics: an Environmental Strategy" Musicology
Review
of John Meredith, Roger Covell and Patricia Brown Folk Songs of
"Public
Not Admitted" Age Monthly Review, October 1988
Review
of Graham Seal The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society
(Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1989) Arena 89 pp 158-61 (1989)
"Rock
and Musical Meaning." Review of John Shepherd, Music as Social Text
(Polity Press, Cambridge, 1991) and Peter Wicke, Rock Music: Culture,
Aesthetics and Sociology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990) Arena
95 pp 162-6 (1991)
"The
Other Side of the Country" (On Ted Egan) Arena Magazine 15 (1994),
pp 51-52
Review
of John Meredith Breaker's Mate: Will Ogilvie in
Review
of Annie E. Proulx Accordion Crimes , Fourth Estate,
Review of Ronald D. Cohen "Wasn't
that a time!" Firsthand accounts of the Folk Music Revival, Robert
Cantwell Ethnomimesis. Folklife and the Representation of Culture and
Dave Laing and Richard Newman Thirty Years of the
Review of Xenos New Moves (XM 3335)
Folklife News Vol 4 No 1, February/March 1998, pp 11-12
“Aboriginal Country” Review of Clinton Walker, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country
Music (Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 2000) Centre for Studies in Australian Music
Review 12, December 2000
Review of Ron Eyerman and
Andrew Jamison, Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the
Twentieth Century
Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998, Context 17, Winter 1999, pp 82-4
“What good is a song?” CD Review of Stand up and Shout
(Rouseabout Records RRR43) and Turning the Tide: Voices for a living planet (UM
records TTT001) Arena
Magazine 91
2007 available online at Arena
Magazine
“Listening to the North” Review of David
Bridie Succumb and Fred Smith Bagarap Empires. Arena Magazine no 96, 2008, pp 51-2
"Country:
Global and Local" Arena Magazine
no 101, 2009, pp 51-3.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PANEL APPEARANCES AND
RADIO PROGRAMS
"Social
Meanings of Style in Irish Traditional Dance Music" Postgraduate Student
Conference, Musicological Society of
Convener
of panel session "Strategies of Preservation", 1st National Folklore
Conference,
"The
Social Construction of Australian Folk Music" ANZAAS Festival of Science,
Convener
of Popular Music session, Symposium of International Musicological Association,
"Folklore,
Fakelore and Folkloric" 3rd National Folklore Conference,
"Irish
Music in
"Perfection
and Proletarian Music" Musicological Society of
"The
Bush Band: An Urban Music Genre" 15th National Conference of the
Musicological Society of
"The
Bush Band as Public Folk Music" 5th National Folklife Conference,
Melbourne, 6-8 Nov 1992
"Folk,
Country and Multicultural: Music genres and nationalist discourse" 33rd
World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music,
"Australian
Country Music: the voice in the landscape" Australian Frontiers
Conference, Longreach, 18-22 April 1995
"Ted
Egan: the voice in the middle" 3rd annual conference IASPM
Folk,
Country, Multicultural and Aboriginal: Popular music genres bidding for the
national myth, Australian Identities Conference, University College Dublin, 3-6
July 1996.
Music,
Community and Nation: Country, Folk, Multicultural, Aboriginal Everyday
Wonders: Popular Culture: Past Present and Future Conference, The
"Locals
and Cosmopolitans in Australian Popular Music: The cases of Country and World
Music." Invited paper at conference: The Cultural Consequences of
Globalisation: The Case of Music. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
"Australian
Country Contends for the National Myth" Conference
"Folk
and Country Music Festivals in
"Celtic
Music: Global Imaginary and Anglo-Australian Ethnicity" Musical Visions,
"Celtic
Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music and the Nation"; Musicology 2001,
“Yodelling
and vocal breaks in Country Music” AICM Conference, Gympie, 29-31 August, 2003
“Ted Egan:
Bringing it Home” AICM Conference, AICM Conference Gympie, 28-29 August 2004
"Australian
Country Music Finds Its Voice" at Making Music, Making Meaning 13th
biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music, Rome, July 25-30 2005
"Singing
Australian: A new history of Australian Folk music" 6th National Folk
Alliance Convention, 2-4 September 2005,National Library of Australia -
"Singing
Australian.." (Voices and Gender in Australian Country Music) Lingua
Franca, ABC Radio 10/09/2005 transcript
of program
"Community
And Nation in Folk, Country And Multicultural Music In Australia" IASPM
Australia/NZ conference December 2005
"From
the Bush to the World: National narratives in the Australian Folk
Movement" Australian Historical Association 2006 Biennial Conference at
the
“Cosmopolitan
Celts: Didjeridus, Irish Music and Celticity” at conference “Us and Them:
perceptions, depictions and descriptions of Celts” Department of History, The
University of Melbourne 24-26 August 2006
“The
Voice of the Land in Australian Country Music.” Society for Ethnomusicology
Conference, Honolulu, Nov 2006
"Dialect, covert prestige and gender in
Australian country music" Linguistics of Song Workshop, Latrobe University
25 Sept 2006
“From ethnics to cosmopolitans in Australian world music” Music Society and Culture Conference, Monash
University
March 6-8 2008
“Multicultural music
and cultural mainstream: Making the difference”, IASPM Australia/NZ conference November 28-9,
2008, Griffith Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Brisbane
“Multicultural music and culturespeak” MSA conference/TASA conference joint session, 4 Dec 2008, University of Melbourne