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  • 23 - Youth Broadcasting and Music Festivals in Australia

  • from Part IV - Institutions
  • Edited by Amanda Harris, University of Sydney, Clint Bracknell, University of Western Australia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    14 November 2024, pp 362-377

  • 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.