Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - Theses

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End date: 2020 × Type: Honours thesis × Subject: Melbourne ×

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    Hyper-visibility and under-representation: inclusivity, diversity, and the alternative music scene in Melbourne
    D'Cruz Barnes, Isobel Irene ( 2020)
    This ethnographic study documents the lived experience of People of Colour (PoC) making alternative and punk music in Melbourne, Australia. Exploring local discourse on cultural diversity, inclusivity and racial difference, I offer previously undocumented Australian perspectives on race and popular music. The study traces issues of whiteness, anti-racism and punk in Australia down to three key components: subculture, genre and capital. Through formal, semi-structured interviews, the study asks how notions of cultural diversity impact alternative music scenes. I argue that PoC in these scenes experience race-based exclusion, both a result of the longstanding erasure of PoC from written histories of Western punk, combined with Australia’s specific position as a white multicultural, settler-colonial nation. In challenging the notion of punk as a white musical tradition, and recognising the specific conditions that foster racism in Australian music scenes, my informants and I discuss how anti-racist values may be meaningfully embodied in local music contexts.
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    The life and musical contributions of Hermann Theodor Schrader (1860-1934)
    Juriansz, Nathan Lloyd ( 2017)
    This thesis examines the life and musical contributions of Hermann Theodor Schrader. Schrader was an active performer and teacher in Melbourne and Adelaide, receiving his main musical training in Leipzig, Germany.