SINGING
AUSTRALIAN: A history of folk and country music
CONTENTS
Part
One – Folk
CHAPTER
ONE Constructing
the folk 1
Creating
the canon 2
Who
are the folk? 6
Popular
front politics 14
CHAPTER
TWO Into
the coffee houses 23
The
second revival 23
Folk
clubs and the folk scene 34
CHAPTER
THREE Folk
goes bush 41
The
bush band 42
The
global context: folk and rock 46
The
political context: the new republicanism 49
The
musical context: instrumental and Irish music 51
The
new authenticity bands 56
Out
of the bush 61
CHAPTER
FOUR Folk,
festivals and the state 63
Folk
festivals 63
Folk
and the state 74
Alternative
strategies and the folk alliance 76
Part
Two – Country
CHAPTER
FIVE The
birth of country 81
Who
likes country music? 81
Australian
hillbilly to Australian country music 85
SA
01c.
CHAPTER
SIX Country
and the new nationalism 97
The
country scene 98
Global
country 106
Country,
land and nation 110
Keeping
it local: awards and accents 111
CHAPTER
SEVEN The
voices of country 119
The
new Australiana: John Williamson 119
The
Boys from the Bush: Lee Kernaghan
125
Country
and Aboriginality:
New
country: Kasey Chambers 133
Warming
to country 138
Part
Three – Crossing Borders
CHAPTER
EIGHT From
multicultural to world music 143
Migrants
and music 144
Polyethnic
bands 147
Australian
a cappella 151
Cultural
revivalist groups 155
World
music and the cosmopolitan 159
CHAPTER
NINE Between
folk, country and rock 165
Folk’s
return 166
Country
meets folk: bush bands revisited 169
Politics
and class 172
Aboriginal
influences 177
In
the middle: Paul Kelly 186
Song,
stances and voices 191
CHAPTER
TEN Imagined
musical communities 193
End
Notes 203
Bibliography
227
Index
245