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0000-0002-6113-6628
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University of Huddersfield
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University of Sydney
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143019000291
Abstract: Country music has a reputation for being the music of the American white working-class South and being closely aligned with conservative politics. However, country music has also been played by non-white minorities and has been a vivid way of expressing progressive political views. In the hands of the Indigenous peoples of Australia, country music has often given voice to a form of life-writing that critiques colonial power. The songs of Dougie Young, dating from the late 1950s, provide one of the earliest and most expressive ex les of this use of country music. Young's songs were a type of social-realist satire and to be fully understood should be placed within the broader socio-political context of 1950s and 1960s Australia. Young's legacy was also important for Aboriginal musicians in the 1990s and the accompanying reassessment of Australia's colonial past. Country music has provided particular opportunities for minority and Indigenous groups seeking to use popular culture to tell their stories. This use of country music provides a new dimension to more conventional understandings of its political role.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2012
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 06-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2022
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 14-01-2015
DOI: 10.22459/AH.38.2015
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 21-08-2020
DOI: 10.1558/POMH.39715
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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