PUBLICATIONS by John Whiteoak
BOOKS
Current book project: The Tango Touch: 'Latin' and
'Continental' influences on Popular Music and Dance Before
'Australian Multiculturalism'
2003 (General Editor, with Aline Scott-Maxwell, and the major contributor) Currency
Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, Sydney: Currency House
1999 Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia, 1836-1970, Sydney:
Currency Press
1999 (Collaborative
research with Herb Patten and Robin Ryan and ghost writing for:) Herb Patten, How
to Play the Gum-Leaf (book and CD), Sydney: Currency Press
ARTICLES, BOOK
CHAPTERS, REVIEWS, PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
Forthcoming:
2010 (John Whiteoak and Clinton Green), 'Val Stephen: a 'Gentleman Amateur' in Australian Electronic Music Experiment of the 1960s' , '1960s' themed issue of Musicology Australia (copy required late 2009)
2009 'Kookaburra Samba: Mainstream and Non-Mainstream Interpretations of Hispanic Music and Dance in Pre-Multicultural Australia: 1850s-1970s' Stuck in the Middle: The Mainstream and its Discontents: Proceeding of the 2008 Australia/New Zealand Conference, Griffith University, 28-30 November 2008
2009 'Brass Banding Meets George Dreyfus' in George Dreyfus ed. The Very Last
Serious Book, Melbourne, Black Pepper Press
2009 'Across The Big Pond”: Mapping Early ‘Jazz’ Activity in New Zealand through Australian Jazz Historiography and Sources' in Allan Thomas, ed. Jazz in New Zealand, Wellington, Victoria University ( updated publisher details and revised book title to be added here)
Already in in Print/Online:
2008 'Family, Friendship and a Magic Carpet: The Music of Franco Cambareri' in Italian Historical Society Journal vol 16. http://www.coasit.com.au/IHS/index.html
2008 'Improvisation in Popular Music (historical overview and case study: The Necks)' Tony Mitchell and Shane Homan (eds) Sound of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, Hobart , ACYS Publishing
2008 'Making Gemütlichkeit: Bavarian-Style Music and Dance in German-Speaking Community and Commercial Popular Entertainment' in Dan Bendrups ed., Music on the Edge: Proceedings from the 2007 Australia/New Zealand IASPM Conference, University of Otago, University of Otago/IASPM
2008 "Play to Me Gypsy": Australian Imaginings of "Gypsies" in Popular Music and Dance Before Muliticulturalism and World Music', Ian Collison and Mark Evans eds. Selected Proceedings from the 2006 Australia/New Zealand IASPM Conference, JMC Academy, Sydney, Perfect Best Publications/IASPM
(2008) 'Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands by Philip Hayward' (regular review) in Perfect Beat the Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 9(1) Jan 2008
2007 'Australian Music: Music of Place or Music of a People' (feature article) Review: Centre for studies in Australian Music 21 Also online at http://www.music.unimelb.edu.au/research/CSAM/review22.pdf
2007 'Mambo Italiano: Ugo Ceresoli and his Orchestra Mokambo' in Italian Historical Society Journal vol 15 Also online at http://www.coasit.com.au/IHS/index.html
2007 'Italo-Hispanic Popular Music in Melbourne before Multiculturalism' in Joel Crotty et al. (eds), Melbourne Victorian Historical Journal 78(2)
2007 'The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935 by Catherine Parsons' Book review for Context: Journal of Music Research 25
2007 '"Latin" Music in Australia Before Multiculturalism' Ian Collinson and Mark Evans (eds.) Sound and Selves: Selected Proceedings From the 2005 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference, Victoria University of Welllington, Perfect Beat Publications/IASPM
2005 'Hillbilly, Cowboy and Western Music as Urban Popular Entertainment' Australian Country Music Vol.3, Gympie, Australian Institute of Country Music Press
2005 'The Cambridge Companion to Jazz' (feature review) in Perfect Beat the Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 7(1)
2005 'Light Music in Britain' (regular review) in Perfect Beat the Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture
2004 'Our Jazz-Making Tools and How We Chose to Use Them' (Keynote Response to Bruce Johnson's Keynote Address: 'Tools Not of Our Making: Shaping Australian Jazz History') in The History and Future of Jazz in the Asia Pacific Region: Refereed Proceeeding of the Inuagural Asia-Pacific Jazz Conference (September 12th-14th 2003), McKay, Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music
2004
(with Aline Scott-Maxwell), '"Swing 'Em to The Fiddle": Modern Western
Square Dancing and Music in 1950s Australia' in Philip Hayward and Geoff Walden
eds, Roots and Crossovers: Australian Country Music vol. 2, Gympie,
Australian Institute of Country Music Press
2004
(Margaret Kartomi, John Whiteoak and Kay Dreyfus, ) 'From Berlin to Bondi: the
Flight of the Weintraub Syncopators' Heat 6
2004 Whiteoak, John, ‘Pity the Bandless Towns’ Australia’s Band World, February 2004: 9-12, March 2004
2003
'Pity the Bandless Towns': Banding in Australian Rural Communities Before World
War Two' Rural Society 13(3)
2003
(individual articles for the Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia
written by John Whiteoak, or John Whiteoak and co-author) ABC concerts (co-authored);
radio music; accordion: classical music; accordion: popular music; Australia's
first jazz band; banjo; blues: to 1950; brass bands: to 1955; boogie woogie;
Broadsheet ballads bugle bands; bush ballads; busking; cake walk dance;
celebrations: dance; children's music (co-authored); cinema organ playing
(co-authored); circus music; Christmas music; collecting ; competitons
(co-authored); composing: introduction; composing music: popular music
1900‑1950 (co-authored); composition for improvisers; coon song;
criticism: classical (co-authored); criticism: popular music until 1955;
conducting: popular; discography; electronic dance music (introduction);
electronic music (introduction); drum and fife bands; entrepreneurs (co-authored); experiment in
jazz; experiment in music: early classical music; experiment in music:
commercial music; experiment in rock and pop (co-authored); festivals
(introduction); film music: silent era; film music: sound era (co-authored) ;
football and music; free jazz; funeral music; German bands (co-authored);
hillbilly music (co-authored); historical recordings; industrial music
(co-authored); introduction [to the volume] (co-authored); jazz (main article,
co-authored); jitterbug (co-authored); jubilee singers; Latin‑American
influences; military music; minstrel show music and dance; musical theatre
(co-authored); musical boxes; music for plays: melodrama music; music hall;
musical variety acts; new music ensembles; New Zealand: -1956; novelty social
dances; one‑string fiddle (co-authored); pantomime; percussion
(co-authored); periodicals: popular music; piano-playing: popular music to 1950;
concert piano-playing: 1820s to 2003; piano-roll music; popular music: until
1900; popular music:1900‑1955 co-authored; popular music:1990-
(co-authored); progressive rock (co-authored); psychedelic rock (co-authored);
provincial (introduction); provincial dance (co-authored); publication: popular
music; radio (introduction); ragtime; record industry: classical music; research
and writing (introduction); research and writing: popular music; serial music;
social dancing: to 1919 (co-authored); social dancing: since 1918 (co-authored);
sound poetry (co-authored); square dancing: music; string‑playing:
contemporary, experimental and new music; string-playing: fiddle playing; tap;
theories of music (co-authored); twenties revival orchestras; ukulele; vamping;
western swing (co-authored); whistling; zither (co-authored) in Companion to
Music and Dance in Australia (see above)
2003 (June) ‘Two Frontiers: Early Cowboy Music in Australia’ Philip Hayward
(ed) Outback and Urban: Australian Country Music Vol. 1, Gympie, Australian
Institute of Country Music Press
2002 'Unorthodox Ad libbers' Sounds Australian 59 (special Australia Ad Lib issue
edited by Rose)
2002 'The Birth and Death of an Early Australian Popular Music Industry: Dance
Orchestra Music' Denis Crowdy, Shane Homan, Tony Mitchell (eds), Musical
In-between-ness: Proceedings of the 8th Australia- New Zealand ISAPM Conference,
Sydney, University of Technology
2002 'Popular Music, Militarism. Women and the Early "Brass
Band" in Australia' Australasian Music Research
6
2001 (Aline Scott-Maxwell with John Whiteoak) 'Multicultural Ideals and
Editorial Realities: Intercultural (Mis) Comunnicationand Cultural Representation in the Making of a Reference Work'
Journal of
Intercultural Studies 22(2)
2001 'Ill Behaved and Unwhipped: Early Sol-Fa Training,' Oral Majority (Sydney)
62, June
2001 'Early Australian Brass Band Music as Pop', Tony Mitchell and Peter Doyle (eds),
Changing Sounds: 1999 International IASPM Conference, Sydney, University of
Technology
2000 'Australian Dance Bands Discussion List' , Jazzchord 55 (Oct/Nov)
2000 (book review:) 'Johnson on Jazz: The Inaudible Music, Jazz, Gender and
Australian Modernity', Review: Centre for studies in Australian Music 11
(June)
1999 John Whiteoak replies to Tim Stevens' Review: Centre for Studies in
Australian Music 10 (Dec)
1999 'The Big Brass Band Battle', Francesca Folk-Skolaro (ed) Brunswick Stories
and Histories, Brunswick Community History Group.
1999 'The Development of Australian Circus Music' Australasian Drama Studies 35
(Oct.)
1997 'Research Report: Companion to Music and Dance in Australia', Context:
Journal of Music Research 14 (Summer)
1996 'Improvisatory Music: an Alternative Perspective on Australian Music
History', Sounds Australian 14/48
1996 'Research Report: Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia
1836-1970, A Melbourne Perspective': Context 11 (Winter)
1996 'A Challenge to John Clare's Claims on Early Bebop', Jazzchord 30
(May/June)
1996 'Keith Humble: the Music-Maker with a Message', Aflame with Music: 100
years of Music at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Centre for Studies in
Australian Music, University of Melbourne
1995 'Keith Humble, a Tribute', Context 10
1995 'Hawaiian Music and Jazzing: Some Comments on Aloha Australia, Hawaiian
Music in Australia, Perfect Beat the Pacific Journal of Research into
Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 2/3
1995 'Australian Women in Performance-Time Composing, 1880-1925', in Thérèse
Radic (ed), Repercussions: Composing Women's Festival and Conference Papers (29
June - 3 July, 1994), Melbourne: Contemporary Music Events Company/National
Centre of Australian Studies, Monash University.
1995 'The Arthur Stirling Australian Brass Band Collection', Continuo: Journal
of the International Association of Music Libraries (Australian Branch) 24.
1995 'Sound Artist with a Radical Bent', The Australian, 9 (June)
1995 Keith Humble 1927-, Jazzchord 25 (June/July)
1994 'Don Banks: from Be‑bop to Third Stream Music', Sounds Australian: 41
(Autumn)
1994 'Jazzing and "Australia's First Jazz Band"', Popular Music
(Cambridge University Press) 13/3
1994 'Jazz, Brass, and the Monte Carlo Orchestra of West Brunswick', in Helen
Penrose, ed., One History, Many Voices, Melbourne: Victoria Press
1993 The Percy Grainger Museum and Keith Humble's Society for the Private
Performance of New Music', In a Nutshell 1/3
1993 'Interview with Keith Humble', New Music Articles (NMA) 7
1993 'From Jim Crow to Jazz: Imitation African-American Improvisatory
Musical Practice in Pre-Jazz Australia, Perfect Beat: the Journal of
Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 1/3
1990 'Robert Rooney and the McKimm/Rooney/Clayton Music Collaboration:
Melbourne, 1960s', in From the Homefront: Robert Rooney Works, 1953‑1988,
Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Gallery.
REFERENCE WORK ARTICLES
2003 Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (see above)
2001 'Humble, (Leslie) Keith'. Sadie, Stanley (ed), New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., London: Macmillan.
1997 'Humble, (Leslie) Keith'. Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne:
Oxford University Press
1988 (rev.2000) (Co-authored with Jeff Pressing), 'Bailey, Judy'; 'Banks, Don';
'Buddle, Errol'; 'Burrows, Don'; 'Golla, George'; 'Gould, Tony'; 'Johnson,
Frank'; 'Lyall, Graeme'; 'Rohde, Bryce'; 'Sangster, John'; 'Speers, Stewie';
'Turnbull, Alan', in Barry Kernfeld (ed), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2
vols., London: Macmillan
1987 'Banks, Donald Oscar'; 'Blott, Charles'; 'Thomas, Bertram Henry Fredrick'
(with B. Thomas), in Bruce Johnson (ed), The Oxford Companion to Australian
Jazz, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
CATALOGUES
1999 The Keith Humble Collection Catalogue: 1999. Catalogue for the National
Library of Australia: Humble Papers
DISCUSSION PAPERS
2000 What is Improvisation? (commissioned by the Australia Council Music Board)
2005
Improvised Music: A Challenge For Tertiary Education (produced for the
Victorian College of the Arts public forum of the same title held on
14/9/2004)
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS (needs updating from 2001)
2001 'Songs on His Fingers' (Notes on Leslie Clarke the Finger Music Man) ABC
Australia Ad Lib Project www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/sounds/5.htm
2001 ‘The Cairo Club Orchestra’ http://gowrie.alphalink.com.au/cairo/linked_pages/review.htm
1999 Improvisatory Music', www.amcoz.com/res-arts.htm (selected articles from
Sounds Australian: Journal of the Australian Music Centre).
1998 'Sometimes Worthy Companion to Hypnotic Grooves', www.mcs.mq.edu.au/content/pbeat/whiteoak.htm (archived)
1997 (John Whiteoak: design, historical research and text; David Hirst and Joe
Giovinazzo: technical design and realisation): The Keith Humble Exhibition
Created at La Trobe University as part of the NFRAM project and archived at National Library of Australia
http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/humble/