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    An ethnography of two folk clubs in Melbourne
    Booker, Corallina Beatrice ( 2016)
    This dissertation analyses two folk clubs in Melbourne: The Victorian Folk Music Club and the Newport Fiddle Folk Club (hereafter the VFMC and NFFC), with an ethnographic approach. The aim of this study is to shed light on the association between folk music and oral tradition challenged by the use of books at the VFMC, the strategies of inclusion and social interaction and the absence of young people which in turn raises the question of the sustainability of these communities. Australian folk clubs have evolved into a unique type of community far different from the British model. This study concludes by proposing two models of Australian folk clubs the VFMC ‘old’ model and the NFFC ‘different’ model.