AMANDA DWECK
RESEARCH NOTES 5 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
Building a “scene” involves lots of facets. It involves recognising that a “scene” should exist when there is no real organisation. Australian blues music...
AMANDA DWECK
Research Notes 4 – A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
"Scars Of The Soul"
During the 1960s and 1970s, the protest song focused mostly on Vietnam. At the time there were other little known protest...
AMANDA DWECK
Research Notes 3 – A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
Further research is needed for this study on the roots of Australian folk music. According to Keesing and Strathern (1998) in Cultural Anthropology: A...
AMANDA DWECK
Research Notes 2– A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
The language of blues music is extemporization, a conversation between the instruments, musicians’ and audience. Adrian Keating performs electric violin with Geoff Achison on...
AMANDA DWECK
Research Notes 1- A Conversation About Australian Blues Music: Life Beyond The Mainstream
American blues music in the beginning represented the oppression and suffering felt by freed slaves and African-American people. Among other things, I suggest blues...
AMANDA DWECK
RESEARCH NOTES 8 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
“KEEP THE FAITH”
Anon and Dutch Tilders
What does it mean to “Keep The Faith”?My initial thoughts about the function of early blues music on the...
AMANDA DWECK
RESEARCH NOTES 7 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
Speaking In Tongues
The Australian blues music community is a family. I have been incredibly privileged to have interviewed some of Australia’s professional musicians. The...
AMANDA DWECK
RESEARCH NOTES 6 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
Blues for Lost Souls*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCoEv9X2tUDownhome Duo - "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" InstrumentalGospel music represents “hope”. Hope for a better life to come, hope...
AMANDA DWECK
Melbourne’s Blues music community “Playin’ For A Cause”
"There's no problems, only Solutions" John Lennon "Watching The Wheels Go Round"
On Saturday 3rd August, several blues bands have donated their time and will be...
Chain “… and the night man walked on the moon*” Part 3
CHAIN 1971(Photo courtesy of Philip Morris)At age sixteen, Matt Taylor would frequent a fish shop near his house in Springhill, Brisbane. The fish shop...
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