Ch. 1. Mapping new music policies -- ch. 2. Who's got the rhetorical power? -- ch. 3. Working the rhetoric -- ch. 4. A Kylie story : inner city to Mushroomville -- ch. 5. Finding the pieces is no cake walk -- ch. 6. Community music : unexpected achievements -- ch. 7. Sweet dreams in Ausmusic and the VRF -- ch. 8. All is revealed : the industry and the PSA -- ch. 9. Whither Australian rock music? -- ch. 10. Conclusions : lessons to rock with
Note
In the 1980s and early 1990s, rock music in Australia became one of the unlikely targets of the Australian Labor Party's (ALP) cultural policies. This text is an observation of the legacy of these cultural policies and the larger debate over the creation and preservation of a national culture
