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Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad presents peer-reviewed chapters that critically reflect on Australasian music-making in the last 125 years. As the first interdisciplinary consideration of music in the Australasian region in 15 years, this book advances Australasian music as a dynamic area of interdisciplinary research in the 21st century. Its themes range from institutional histories of music, composer biography, music and migration, in diaspora, and cultural exchange and collaboration.

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John Gabriel is Lecturer in Musicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. His research focuses on German and Czech speaking Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sarah Kirby is a research fellow at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne. She is a recent doctoral graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium, where her PhD research explored music at international exhibitions in the British Empire through the 1880s. She teaches music history at both the University of Melbourne and the University of New England, and is currently associate editor of Musicology Australia.

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