Roots
How Melbourne Became the Live Musical Capital of the World
Published on 11. November 2019
240 pages
978-1-925556-93-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Melbourne sound that is at once both rakish and debonair.
So what specifically is it about Melbourne that, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, it's able to support around 465 live music venues as compared to 453 in New York, 385 in Tokyo and 245 in London despite its population being a fraction of those major world cities? Despite the flaky weather, the footy and Netflix, Melbournians are committed to going out at night and in great numbers in heat or hail to listen to live music and to find those bands and singers they've heard on Spotify or discovered on Soundcloud.
So what specifically is it about Melbourne that, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, it's able to support around 465 live music venues as compared to 453 in New York, 385 in Tokyo and 245 in London despite its population being a fraction of those major world cities? Despite the flaky weather, the footy and Netflix, Melbournians are committed to going out at night and in great numbers in heat or hail to listen to live music and to find those bands and singers they've heard on Spotify or discovered on Soundcloud.
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. 'Change is Gonna Come'
- Chapter 2. The Roots of Jazz
- Chapter 3. Modernism, Communism, Hot Jazz & Graeme Bell
- Chapter 4. The Jazz Explosion
- Chapter 5. Let's Rock
- Chapter 6. What the Folk?
- Chapter 7. Women Folk
- Chapter 8. 'Damn right I got the blues'
- Chapter 9. The Blues Highway
- Chapter 10. Melbourne, Americana, Mainstream & Independent
- Chapter 11. Melbourne's New Wave
- Chapter 12. House Bands, Sidemen & Sidewomen of Melbourne
- Chapter 13. The Professionals
- Chapter 14. Bumping Out
- References
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- The Author
