An interview with Rebekah Duke
Melbourne’s inner-northern live music venues and social scenes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v16i1-2.28549Keywords:
Melbourne, live music, venues, music scenesAbstract
In this Riff article, Samuel Whiting speaks to live music advocate and Melbourne music industry professional Rebekah Duke. The interview focuses on the small live music venues of Melbourne’s inner-northern suburbs and the social scenes that inhabit them, exploring the role that these spaces play within the city’s broader live music scene in Australia’s cultural capital. The significance of these venues is reflected within Duke’s first-hand experiences, emphasizing ideas of vernacular cultural history and place-making.
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Burke, Matthew, and Amy Schmidt. 2013. ‘How Should We Plan and Regulate Live Music in Australian Cities? Learnings from Brisbane’. Australian Planner 50/1: 68–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.722556
Cohen, Sara. 2007. Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles. Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Deloitte Access Economics. 2011. The Economic, Social and Cultural Contribution of Venue-Based Live Music in Victoria. Melbourne: Arts Victoria.
Ernst & Young. 2011. Economic Contribution of the Venue-Based Live Music Industry in Australia. Sydney: APRA/Australia Council.
Flew, Terry. 2008. ‘Music, Cities, and Cultural and Creative Industries Policy’. In Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity, ed. Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters and Susan Luckman, 7–16. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music series. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Frith, Simon. 2002. ‘Music and Everyday Life’. Critical Quarterly 44/1: 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8705.00399
Johnson, Bruce, and Shane Homan. 2003. Vanishing Acts: An Inquiry into the State of Live Popular Music Opportunities in New South Wales. Sydney: Australia Council & NSW Ministry for the Arts.
Gallan, Ben. 2012. ‘Gatekeeping Night Spaces: The Role of Booking Agents in Creating “Local” Live Music Venues and Scenes’. Australian Geographer 43/1: 35–50.
Gallan, Ben, and Chris Gibson. 2013. ‘Mild-Mannered Bistro by Day, Eclectic Freak-Land at Night: Memories of an Australian Music Venue’. Journal of Australian Studies 37/2: 174–93.
Holt, Fabian. 2014. ‘Rock Clubs and Gentrification in New York City: The Case of The Bowery Presents’. IASPM@Journal 4/1: 21–41.
Homan, Shane. 2011. ‘“I Tote and I Vote”: Australian Live Music and Cultural Policy’. Arts Marketing 1/2: 96–107.
Shank, Barry. 1994. Dissonant Identities: The Rock’n’roll Scene in Austin, Texas. Hanover, NE: Wesleyan University Press.
Shaw, Kate. 2009. ‘The Melbourne Indie Music Scene and the Inner City Blues’. In Whose Urban Renaissance?: An International Comparison of Urban Regeneration Strategies, ed. Libby Porter and Kate Shaw, 191–201. New York: Routledge.
—2013. ‘Independent Creative Subcultures and Why They Matter’. International Journal of Cultural Policy 19/3: 333–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.788162
Smyly, Brendan Paul. 2010. ‘“You Went There for the People and Went There for the Bands”: The Sandringham Hotel—1980 to 1998’. PhD dissertation, University of Western Sydney.
Walker, Clinton. 2012. ‘History is Made at Night: Live Music in Australia’. Platform Papers: Quarterly Essays on the Performing Arts 32: 1–60. Sydney: Currency House.
Published
2015-12-17
Issue
Section
Riffs
How to Cite
Whiting, S. (2015). An interview with Rebekah Duke: Melbourne’s inner-northern live music venues and social scenes. Perfect Beat, 16(1-2), 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v16i1-2.28549
