Article: Producing an Australian popular music: from Stephen Foster to Jack O'Hagan.(Essay)

I need to start by defining what I mean by 'popular music'. Iain Chambers argues that in popular culture there is a 'mutual involvement of industry and culture, of commercial production and popular taste (1)' and that this is typically the case in 'popular music'. In Chambers's argument, popular music is bound up with processes of industrialisation and capitalistic commodification. The impact of commercialisation is commonly considered fundamental: for example, in their discussion of popular music in Australia, Jeff Brownrigg and Marcus Breen write that a 'commercial imperative is usually evident in popular music'. (2) In Chambers's more developed definition, popular ...

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