Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
15 - Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
from Part III - Diversities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia
- Part I Continuities
- Part II Encounters
- Part III Diversities
- 11 Exclusion and Inclusion in Australian Metal
- 12 New Directions in Australian Art Music: The Curatorial, Creative and Conceptual
- 13 Artists’ Perspectives Experimental and Electronic Music in Australia
- 14 ArtistPerspective Australian EDM in the 1990s – Finding the Magic between the Art and Commerce of the Dance Floor
- 15 Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play
- 16 Diverse Musics: Shaping Music through Cultural Difference
- 17 Chinese Music Performance in Australia
- 18 African Musics in Australia
- 19 Artists’ Perspectives Ngarra-burria Indigenous Composers and Their Interventions in Art Music Practice
- Part IV Institutions
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the current state of jazz in Australia through the lens of notable practitioners—Andrea Keller, Simon Barker, Gian Slater, Kristin Berardi, Phil Slater and Jamie Oehlers. Presented as a panel discussion, the participants explore the term ‘jazz’ as it is perceived both by audiences and the practitioners themselves, discuss the challenges of presenting original music in a country as isolated as Australia, and question whether there is an audible Australian jazz ‘dialect’.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 233 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
References
Further Reading
Bartleet, B. L., Bennett, D., Bridgstock, R., Harrison, S., Draper, P., Tomlinson, V. and Ballico, C., Making Music Work: Sustainable Portfolio Careers for Australian Musicians (Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, 2020), https://makingmusicworkcomau.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/mmw_full-report.pdf.Google Scholar
Johnson, B., Jazz Diaspora: New Approaches to Music and Globalisation, Transnational Studies in Jazz (New York: Routledge, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, B., The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Robson, A., Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney (New York: Routledge, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stratton, J., ‘“All Rock and Rhythm and Jazz”: Rock ‘n’ Roll Origin Stories and Race in Australia’, Continuum, 21(3) (2007), 379–92, https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310701460730.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whiteoak, J., ‘Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”’, Popular Music and Society, 45(4) (2022), 377–404, https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2123469.CrossRefGoogle Scholar