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When Gary Shearston released his worldwide hit version of "I Get A Kick Out Of You" in 1974, he had already been recording for over a decade, and years of creative adventure lay ahead. His most commercially successful album, Dingo, provides a lens through which to...
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When Gary Shearston released his worldwide hit version of "I Get A Kick Out Of You" in 1974, he had already been recording for over a decade, and years of creative adventure lay ahead.
His most commercially successful album, Dingo, provides a lens through which to study his role in establishing and developing a purposefully Australian variant on '70s pop and rock music with its poetic evocations of Australian landscapes, topographies, character and cultural identity. This is mixed with connections to Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and 1970s London. These blend with the Bush Ballad tradition, native Australian music and rhythms, and the '60s folk and protest song boom, of which he was a key figure and prime mover.
All these elements combine on this album to provide a fresh and enduring evocation of what Australian music was, is, and could be. It provides a link back to traditional forms and a signpost forward to acts such as The Go-Betweens and Nick Cave.
Drawing on the author's correspondence with Gary Shearston from 2008-2013, this book contains previously unpublished primary material from the artist himself. Peter Mills digs into the "Australian-ness" of Shearston's music, and how such a term came to be defined.
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9798765119860
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 September 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 4 color, 1 bw illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 136
About the Author
Peter Mills is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published books on Van Morrison (Hymns To The Silence, Bloomsbury, 2010) , Samuel Beckett (Beckett at Reading, 2002) and The Monkees (The Monkees, ‘Head’ and the 60s, 2016). He is co-editor of The Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light (2023). He has written, contributed to and appeared in BBC radio and TV documentaries on musical topics from punk to classical, and hosted World Music events at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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