The Vinyl Age: Rock Music in Australia, 1945-1995 | Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, and Clinton Walker

Summary: Music, Culture and Society: Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, and Clinton Walker <strong>The Vinyl Age: Rock Music in Australia, 1945-1995</strong> Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, and Clinton Walker This paper represents a work in progress. This project promises the first coherent narrative and thematic work on rock and the postwar period, especially the sixties , with reference both to content and context . Team members - Clinton Walker, Peter Beilharz, and Trevor Hogan - will offer vignettes of enthusiasms including the idea of cultural traffic between cities outside and inside Australia, picking up themes like patterns of performance, innovation, imperfect mimesis, music technologies, production, consumption and youth culture. What happened in these spheres in the antipodes? What made these experiences different, as well as common, and what are the remaining resonances of these stories?