Nation Building and Australian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s

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[1] On nationalism see, for example, Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (1983).

[2] These figures come from the relevant Year Book Australia published each year by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

[3] Given what I am arguing about the way Midnight Oil expressed their politics, it is not surprising that, in 2004, Peter Garrett should get endorsement as a Labor candidate. In 1984 Garrett had stood as a candidate for the Nuclear Disarmament Party.

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Jon Stratton

Jon Stratton is Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology. At present he is completing a book on Australian popular music in the 1970s and 1980s, to be published by University of Western Australia Press, which will include a longer version of this article.