Sarah and Alison have co-authored an article about the appearance and construction of a country music canon in Tamworth, Australia. The piece will be published in a forthcoming edition of the journal, Popular Music (2013, 32(3)). The article is based on fieldwork Sarah and Alison undertook in 2011, and is interested in the means through which certain aspects of popular music's historical past comes to be remembered over others. Read the abstract here:
Showing posts with label Tamworth Country Music Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamworth Country Music Festival. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Big things, wax things, bronze things
Over the last few days in Tamworth we have visited yet more of the Country Music Capital's historical sites, including the Big Golden Guitar, the Country Music Gallery of Stars Wax Museum, the bronze busts in Bicentennial Park, the Hands of Fame, Lindsay Butler Studio's Wall of Fame and memorabilia collection, and the Australian Country Music Foundation's Country Music Hall of Fame. We were also very lucky to be invited to the Australian Bush Laureate Awards held at the beautiful Town Hall, where we were seated right next to country music's matriarch, Ms Joy McKean! Throw in a couple of concerts, a few talks by Australian pioneers of country music, a lot of buskers, and the unveiling ceremony of this year's plaque commemorating this year's inductees into the Roll of Renown (Tommy and Phil Emmanuel), and you could say we have been rather busy...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Tamworth, here we are!
Sarah and Alison are in Tamworth for the 2011 Country Music Festival.
We have already taken in a range of the historical fare on offer in this memorial town to Australia's country music, including the Walk a Country Mile exhibit, the TSA Songmaker Tribute, the Roll of Renown and the Galaxy of Stars at the TREC (the venue where the Country Music Awards will be held later this week), and the Winners' Walkway in the world-famous Peel Street. We have also attended the opening concert in Bicentennial Park, and the Roll of Renown Concert at the Town Hall, where the 2011 inductees, the Emmanuel Brothers, were announced to a rapt crowd.
We have already taken in a range of the historical fare on offer in this memorial town to Australia's country music, including the Walk a Country Mile exhibit, the TSA Songmaker Tribute, the Roll of Renown and the Galaxy of Stars at the TREC (the venue where the Country Music Awards will be held later this week), and the Winners' Walkway in the world-famous Peel Street. We have also attended the opening concert in Bicentennial Park, and the Roll of Renown Concert at the Town Hall, where the 2011 inductees, the Emmanuel Brothers, were announced to a rapt crowd.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Tamworth, here we come!
In 2011, our research project will be hitting the road. The first stop on our Australia-wide tour is the Tamworth Country Music Festival in NSW.
Sarah and Alison will be in Tamworth from 13-24 January 2011 to interview some of the 60,000-odd pilgrims who travel to this event at the home of country music in Australia every year. We also want to talk to some of the many people who contribute to the festival behind the scenes, and to those who work to preserve the heritage of country music in Australia.
Are you going to the festival? Do you live in Tamworth? Would you like to be part of our research? Drop us a line at musicmemories@griffith.edu.au to find out more.
Sarah and Alison will be in Tamworth from 13-24 January 2011 to interview some of the 60,000-odd pilgrims who travel to this event at the home of country music in Australia every year. We also want to talk to some of the many people who contribute to the festival behind the scenes, and to those who work to preserve the heritage of country music in Australia.
Are you going to the festival? Do you live in Tamworth? Would you like to be part of our research? Drop us a line at musicmemories@griffith.edu.au to find out more.
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