Antipodean Riffs: Essays on Australasian Jazz

by Bruce Johnson

Book Overview

Antipodean Riffs is a collection of essays on Australian jazz and jazz in Australia. Chronologically they range from what could be called the 'prehistory' of the music -- the tradition of US-sourced African-American music that predated the arrival of music billed as 'jazz' -- to the present. Thematically they include studies of framing infrastructural mechanisms including the media. The volume also incorporates case studies of particular musicians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178179281X
• ISBN13: 9781781792810
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"