In 1980 Joe Dolce released ‘Shaddap You Face’ - it went triple platinum and remains the most successful song in Australian music history. This was the first and last time, a song which acknowledged Australia’s Italian community made it into the mainstream of Australia’s popular music.
In this podcast, Professor Jon Stratton, from Curtin University’s Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, talks about Australian popular music and how it is stuck in the era of assimilation. To listen to this podcast, just click: Download.
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Theme music from this podcast series is Good Morning by Pitx and was downloaded from ccMixter under a Creative Commons licence.
