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23 - Youth Broadcasting and Music Festivals in Australia

from Part IV - Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Ben Green  and
Ian Rogers
Edited by
Amanda Harris  and
Clint Bracknell
Amanda Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Clint Bracknell
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Summary

This chapter explores the development of youth music media and music festivals in Australia, and the synergies between them. This includes the national expansion in the 1990s of public youth radio station Triple J, and its ABC television counterparts rage and Recovery, in parallel with a new wave of music festivals like the Big Day Out, Homebake and Livid. This infrastructure and these events were central to a period of transition for Australian popular music. Local alternative scenes developed into a translocal industrial sub-sector, marketing a distinct national identity and incorporating urban and regional youth audiences. Cultural institutions and practices established during this time, such as the modern music festival and the celebration of ‘homegrown’ Australian artists, continue to be influential. This chapter draws on secondary texts and scholarly literature to map and connect these developments, which are analysed using scene theory.

Keywords

FestivalizationMusic festivalsMusic televisionRadioYouth media
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 362 - 377
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Albury, K., ‘Spaceship Triple J: Making the National Youth Network’, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy, 91 (1999), 55–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cummings, J., ‘It’s More than a T-Shirt: Neo-Tribal Sociality and Linking Images at Australian Indie Music Festivals’, Perfect Beat, 8(1) (2006).Google Scholar
Gibson, C. and Connell, J., Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).Google Scholar
Giuffre, L., ‘Maintaining Rage: Counting Down without a Host for over 20 Years’, Perfect Beat, 10(1) (2009), 39–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mathieson, C., The Sell-In: How the Music Business Seduced Alternative Rock (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000).Google Scholar
Walker, C., Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991, Revised and Expanded Edition (Portland, OR: The Visible Spectrum, 2021).Google Scholar

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