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
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 CD Xenos New Moves (XM 3335) Folklife News Vol 4 No
1, February/March 1998, pp 11-12
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 confernce 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