John Whiteoak

Biographic Data

ID	1248595
NAME	John Whiteoak
GIVEN NAMES	John
FAMILY NAME	Whiteoak
SIGNATURE	WHITEOAK J
AFFILIATIONS	Monash University
ORCID	0000-0001-9157-4277
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	21
TOTAL CITATIONS	8
AUTHOR COUNT	20
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	2

Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2025
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0522877649 (pbk)
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2025
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0522877649 (pbk)
Buddle, Errol
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2022
Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”
John WhiteoakARTICLEPopular Music & Society2022References: 4
This article proposes that the framing of jazz diaspora in relation to Australia must embrace significant antecedents of jazz-related performance and culture in Australia, including blackface and African-American minstrel show music, improvisatory popular and art music practices and various subgenres of ragtime. It argues that the spirit of “jazz” as a vehicle for extroverted self-expression and identification with American popular modernity and …
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
Eve Klein, Phoebe Macrossan et al.BOOKPopular Music, Stars and Stardom2018Cited by: 4References: 18
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of
From Jim Crow to Jazz: Imitation African-American Improvisatory Musical Practices in Pre-Jazz Australia
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
This article examines the nature of some of the watered-down forms of African-American musical culture that reached Australia before jazz. It explores the possibility that performance practice in some of these forms actually pre-empted the type of 'jazz improvisation' first heard in Australia. It also suggests the possible significance of blackface minstrelsy in pre-jazz Australia in relation to later attitudes towards improvisatory practice in p…
Hawaiian Music and Jazzing: Some Comments on 'Aloha Australia - Hawaiian Music in Australia (1920-55)
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
The final article in this issue responds to the major study of Hawaiian music in Australia published in v2n2 by discussing aspects of the relationship between Hawaiian music styles and 'jazzing' in early Twentieth Century music, providing another account of the global influence of this mediated form of Pacific music
Hayward, P (2006) Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
Hayward, P (2006) Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands, Eastleigh: John Libbey and Co
White Roots, Grey Flowers ? Multiple Conceptions of Early Australian ‘Jazz’ and Pre-‘Jazz' History
John WhiteoakARTICLEMusicology Australia2015
Jazz history has largely been documented by individuals with deep respect and affection for the tradition, or a particular aspect of it. Their perspective has therefore often been aesthetic, qualitative and retrospective—who played the most ‘authentic’, virtuosic or innovative jazz and what were the black musical roots of the self-aware (if aesthetically divided) jazz movement that was manifest throughout the western world by the late 1930s? Cons…
Dr. Val Stephen, a ‘Gentleman Amateur’ in Australian Electronic Music Experiment of the 1960s
John Whiteoak, Clinton GreenARTICLEMusicology Australia2010
This article uses the example of Dr. Val Stephen, a Melbourne anaesthetist believed to be the first Australia-based composer to have a record of electronic music released overseas, to discuss an unexplored category woven into the tapestry of Australian electronic music experiment of the 1960s; namely, that of the ‘hobby experimentalist’. The article shows that while Stephen might be conveniently categorized as a ‘hobby experimentalist’ who tapped…
Cha-Cha-Cha to Ciuff Ciuff: Modernity, ‘Tradition’ and the Italian-Australian Popular Music Scene of the 1960s
John Whiteoak, Aline Scott-MaxwellARTICLEMusicology Australia2010Cited by: 1
The period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s saw the peaking of the great wave of mass migration from Italy to Australia. It also saw the creation of a vibrant and multi-stranded Italian-Australian popular music scene that formed a highly significant part of Italian migrants' hard but fulfilling lives to establish themselves, find love, make a home, and create a family and a community in an unfamiliar new country. By the late 1960s, this pop…
Bailey, Judy
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Rohde, Bryce
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Burrows, Don(ald Vernon)
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Turnbull, Alan (Lawrence)
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Johnson, Frank
Jeff Pressing, John WhiteoakCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Golla, George
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Pity the Bandless Towns’: Brass Banding in Australian Rural Communities Before World War Two
Open AccessJohn WhiteoakARTICLERural Society2003
Wind band music has been part of Australian life from the beginning of colonisation. Reed and brass and allbrass bands became central to the fabric of the social and cultural life of a vast number of small and large communities beyond the chief cities. Proud and progressive rural communities produced some of the best contesting bands of the pre-World War One era but urbanisation, metropolitan dominance of banding and other factors gradually rever…
Humble, (Leslie) Keith
John WhiteoakCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Multicultural Ideals and Editorial Realities: Intercultural (mis)communication and cultural representation in the making of a reference work
Aline Scott-Maxwell, John WhiteoakARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2001References: 4
Jazzing' and Australia's First Jazz Band
Open AccessJohn WhiteoakARTICLEPopular Music1994Cited by: 3
A growing tendency to study Australian popular musics as an aspect of Australian cultural studies has begun to bear fruit in the form of long overdue appraisal of the socio-cultural and musical significance of these musics. Yet in our justified enthusiasm for the exciting horizons made visible by this development, it is possible to forget that music research can serve more traditional but nevertheless important functions. In the study of popular …

Jazzing' and Australia's First Jazz Band
Open AccessJohn WhiteoakARTICLEPopular Music1994Cited by: 3
A growing tendency to study Australian popular musics as an aspect of Australian cultural studies has begun to bear fruit in the form of long overdue appraisal of the socio-cultural and musical significance of these musics. Yet in our justified enthusiasm for the exciting horizons made visible by this development, it is possible to forget that music research can serve more traditional but nevertheless important functions. In the study of popular …
Humble, (Leslie) Keith
John WhiteoakCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Multicultural Ideals and Editorial Realities: Intercultural (mis)communication and cultural representation in the making of a reference work
Aline Scott-Maxwell, John WhiteoakARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2001References: 4
Bailey, Judy
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Rohde, Bryce
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Burrows, Don(ald Vernon)
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Turnbull, Alan (Lawrence)
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Johnson, Frank
Jeff Pressing, John WhiteoakCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Golla, George
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2003
Pity the Bandless Towns’: Brass Banding in Australian Rural Communities Before World War Two
Open AccessJohn WhiteoakARTICLERural Society2003
Wind band music has been part of Australian life from the beginning of colonisation. Reed and brass and allbrass bands became central to the fabric of the social and cultural life of a vast number of small and large communities beyond the chief cities. Proud and progressive rural communities produced some of the best contesting bands of the pre-World War One era but urbanisation, metropolitan dominance of banding and other factors gradually rever…
Dr. Val Stephen, a ‘Gentleman Amateur’ in Australian Electronic Music Experiment of the 1960s
John Whiteoak, Clinton GreenARTICLEMusicology Australia2010
This article uses the example of Dr. Val Stephen, a Melbourne anaesthetist believed to be the first Australia-based composer to have a record of electronic music released overseas, to discuss an unexplored category woven into the tapestry of Australian electronic music experiment of the 1960s; namely, that of the ‘hobby experimentalist’. The article shows that while Stephen might be conveniently categorized as a ‘hobby experimentalist’ who tapped…
Cha-Cha-Cha to Ciuff Ciuff: Modernity, ‘Tradition’ and the Italian-Australian Popular Music Scene of the 1960s
John Whiteoak, Aline Scott-MaxwellARTICLEMusicology Australia2010Cited by: 1
The period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s saw the peaking of the great wave of mass migration from Italy to Australia. It also saw the creation of a vibrant and multi-stranded Italian-Australian popular music scene that formed a highly significant part of Italian migrants' hard but fulfilling lives to establish themselves, find love, make a home, and create a family and a community in an unfamiliar new country. By the late 1960s, this pop…
From Jim Crow to Jazz: Imitation African-American Improvisatory Musical Practices in Pre-Jazz Australia
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
This article examines the nature of some of the watered-down forms of African-American musical culture that reached Australia before jazz. It explores the possibility that performance practice in some of these forms actually pre-empted the type of 'jazz improvisation' first heard in Australia. It also suggests the possible significance of blackface minstrelsy in pre-jazz Australia in relation to later attitudes towards improvisatory practice in p…
Hawaiian Music and Jazzing: Some Comments on 'Aloha Australia - Hawaiian Music in Australia (1920-55)
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
The final article in this issue responds to the major study of Hawaiian music in Australia published in v2n2 by discussing aspects of the relationship between Hawaiian music styles and 'jazzing' in early Twentieth Century music, providing another account of the global influence of this mediated form of Pacific music
Hayward, P (2006) Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2015
Hayward, P (2006) Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands, Eastleigh: John Libbey and Co
White Roots, Grey Flowers ? Multiple Conceptions of Early Australian ‘Jazz’ and Pre-‘Jazz' History
John WhiteoakARTICLEMusicology Australia2015
Jazz history has largely been documented by individuals with deep respect and affection for the tradition, or a particular aspect of it. Their perspective has therefore often been aesthetic, qualitative and retrospective—who played the most ‘authentic’, virtuosic or innovative jazz and what were the black musical roots of the self-aware (if aesthetically divided) jazz movement that was manifest throughout the western world by the late 1930s? Cons…
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
Eve Klein, Phoebe Macrossan et al.BOOKPopular Music, Stars and Stardom2018Cited by: 4References: 18
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty-first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of
Buddle, Errol
Jeff Pressing, John Whiteoak et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2022
Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”
John WhiteoakARTICLEPopular Music & Society2022References: 4
This article proposes that the framing of jazz diaspora in relation to Australia must embrace significant antecedents of jazz-related performance and culture in Australia, including blackface and African-American minstrel show music, improvisatory popular and art music practices and various subgenres of ragtime. It argues that the spirit of “jazz” as a vehicle for extroverted self-expression and identification with American popular modernity and …
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2025
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0522877649 (pbk)
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
John WhiteoakARTICLEPerfect Beat2025
Deirdre O’Connell. 2021. Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0522877649 (pbk)