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 America: Migration and Irish Music" in Patrick O'Sullivan (ed) The Creative Migrant (The Irish World Wide Vol 3) Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1994 pp 221-237.
"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
"Australia" in The Companion to
Irish Traditional Music, ed Fintan Vallely, Cork University Press,
“Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music and the Nation” Perfect Beat vol 5 no 2, 2001, pp 3-18
"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 America : Migration and Irish Music" Re-published in Simon Frith (ed) Popular music : Critical
concepts in media and cultural studies, Routledge ,
Singing Australia : A History of Folk and
Country Music , Pluto Press,
“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.
“Singers and Songwriters in Australian Country Music” Musicology Australia v33 n2, 2011, pp 213-22
“The Gendered Voice of Australian Country Music “ Context n35/36, 2010/2011, pp 27-38
Reviews and Comments
Comment on Jill Stubington "Preservation and Conservation of Australian Traditional Musics: an Environmental Strategy" Musicology Australia 10(1987) pp 13-14
Review of John Meredith, Roger Covell and Patricia Brown Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women who Sang Them Vol 2 , (University of NSW Press, Sydney, 1987). Musicology Australia 10(1987) pp 76-8.
"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 Australia ( Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1996) Folklife News Vol 1, No 3, Feb/Mar 1997, pp 15-17.
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 Australia,
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 Australia,
"The Bush Band: An Urban Music
Genre" 15th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia,
"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 Australia/ New Zealand,
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 Australia", Robert Shelton Conference,
"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
“Singers and Songwriters in Australian Country Music” Musicology Australia v33 n2, 2011, pp213-22
“The Gendered Voice of Australian Country Music “ Context n 35/36 (2010/2011) pp 27-38