The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalistIan McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.[1][2] The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop,[3] but is not otherwise related.
Publishers, Allen & Unwin described McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and an "essential reference to the bands and artists who molded the shape of Australian popular music [...] in an A-to-Z encyclopedia format complete with biographical and historical details. Each entry also includes listings of original band lineups and subsequent changes, record releases, career highlights, and cross-references with related bands and artists."[4]
The first edition is out of print, but was for a time available on the whammo.com.au online record store, and is still in the Internet Archive. In 2017 a second edition was published by Third Stone Press.[5]
Reviews
The first edition was described in Australian Music Guide as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards".[6]
The second edition appeared in 2017 and was updated to 2016. Steven Carroll of The Sydney Morning Herald opined that "Any survey of Australian pop and rock that includes entries on such bands as Serious Young Insects (via Boom Crash Opera) is a serious tome. It's so easy to get lost in this revised edition: one band leading to another, and so on, until you're suddenly asking yourself what happened to the last hour."[7]
^. Allen & Unwin. December 1999. Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
^Noel McGrath's Australian encyclopaedia of rock & pop / Noel McGrath. National Library of Australia. 1984. ISBN0-7270-1909-0. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
^"The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, Ian McFarlane, Book". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
^McFarlane, Ian; Jenkins, Jeff (2017). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (2nd ed.). Gisborne, VIC: Third Stone Press. ISBN978-0-9953856-0-3.
^"Australian Music Books" (PDF). Australian Music Guide. March 2004. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
^Carroll, Steven (17 March 2017). "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop review: a glorious journey". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
External links
Turkalo, David M (15 May 2000). "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop.(Review)". Library Journal. Library Journals, LLC. 125 (9): 82. ISSN 0363-0277.
April 27, 2023
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