Journal article
Review of Missing in Action: Australian Popular Music in Perspective, Volume 1, edited by Marcus Breen (Kensington: Verbal Graphics, 1987)
Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.2(2)
1989
Abstract
With broad-ranging collections like this, it's often difficult to make an overall assessment. But the genre of the review makes exactly this demand, so....
It's a desktop job, in a promised series of books - quite nicely produced given the pre-Ventura, pre-Pagemaker technology it uses - but suffering from the inevitable poor copyediting, typos and problems with layout consistency. In terms of content, it's definitely a curate's egg - but by no means a pig's breakfast. What does make me suspicious about the quality of the overall project, though, is that I most liked the articles on subjects and musics about which I happen know least. And I wonder how good they would be to fans.
Details
- Title
- Review of Missing in Action: Australian Popular Music in Perspective, Volume 1, edited by Marcus Breen (Kensington: Verbal Graphics, 1987)
- Authors/Creators
- A. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.2(2)
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005542962107891
- Copyright
- 1989 Taylor & Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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