Sound Alliances

Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia. Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia.

"Through the 1990s, Philip Hayward has been the driving force behind popular music studies in Australia...[This publication is] a significant milestone and achievement....The strength of the collection lies in the layering up of a sense of community of inquiry, and the fostering of an intertextual head of steam, grounded in a set of empirical, rather than theoretical, concerns."--The Contemporary Pacific

• Introduction - beyond the axis, Philip Hayward. Part 1 Music, identity and cultural politics. Part 2 Music, commerce and the media industries. Part 3 Access to mainstream - the case of Yothu Yindi.