Adam Trainer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2416057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Trainer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Trainer |
| SIGNATURE | TRAINER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6097-696X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Snake Pits to Ballrooms
In the late 1950s, rock’n’roll as both a musical genre and a pervasive youth cultural form spread from the U.S. to emerge in various regionalized forms throughout most Western societies. From its roots in working-class culture to its eventual commercial embrace by middle-class audiences, rock’n’roll developed in Perth through a set of specific circumstances linked to both racial and class-based factors, distinctive to the city as a small, isolate…
“Making Do in Ways That We Hadn't Done Before”: The Early Popular Music Industry in Perth
Fruit Band, Rock Band
The performance of popular music in pubs is a long established tradition in Australia and, through various socio-cultural and legislative processes, it became a dominant form of entertainment throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with musicians and those working in the music industry in Perth during these decades, this article addresses the specific circumstances that saw rock music come to be performed in suburban hotels in Perth…
Perth punk and the construction of urbanity in a suburban city
As a musical form, punk is often associated with urbanity, as embodied in the scenes in both London and New York, and in an Australian national context by the scenes in Melbourne and Sydney. In Perth, Western Australia - a primarily middle-class suburban city without a distinct inner city - punk was expressed differently. While the music itself exemplified many of the stylistic traits associated with the genre, punk in Perth was articulated throu…
Nothing happens here
This essay examines Perth as portrayed through the lyrics of popular songs written by people who grew up in the city. These lyrics tend to reproduce the dominant myths about the city: that it is isolated, that it is self-satisfied, that little happens there. Perth became the focus of song lyrics during the late 1970s time of punk with titles such as 'Arsehole of the Universe' and 'Perth Is a Culture Shock'. Even the Eurogliders' 1984 hit, 'Heaven…
Sleepy township
Indie rock came of age in the 1990s, transitioning from its status as an industrial classification, a set of stylistic markers and a form of sub-cultural identification to a recognisable branding tool for major labels and mass media. In Perth, Western Australia, this process was framed through specific geographical and socio-cultural circumstances including the city's isolation and the existence of a strong middle class, which gave rise to a regi…
Earth sound earth signal
There is something unsettling and ironically otherworldly about the collision of art and science. As disciplines that attempt to explain and situate our place in the cosmos, Douglas Kahn proposes i
Nothing happens here
This essay examines Perth as portrayed through the lyrics of popular songs written by people who grew up in the city. These lyrics tend to reproduce the dominant myths about the city: that it is isolated, that it is self-satisfied, that little happens there. Perth became the focus of song lyrics during the late 1970s time of punk with titles such as 'Arsehole of the Universe' and 'Perth Is a Culture Shock'. Even the Eurogliders' 1984 hit, 'Heaven…
Perth punk and the construction of urbanity in a suburban city
As a musical form, punk is often associated with urbanity, as embodied in the scenes in both London and New York, and in an Australian national context by the scenes in Melbourne and Sydney. In Perth, Western Australia - a primarily middle-class suburban city without a distinct inner city - punk was expressed differently. While the music itself exemplified many of the stylistic traits associated with the genre, punk in Perth was articulated throu…
From Snake Pits to Ballrooms
In the late 1950s, rock’n’roll as both a musical genre and a pervasive youth cultural form spread from the U.S. to emerge in various regionalized forms throughout most Western societies. From its roots in working-class culture to its eventual commercial embrace by middle-class audiences, rock’n’roll developed in Perth through a set of specific circumstances linked to both racial and class-based factors, distinctive to the city as a small, isolate…
Fruit Band, Rock Band
The performance of popular music in pubs is a long established tradition in Australia and, through various socio-cultural and legislative processes, it became a dominant form of entertainment throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with musicians and those working in the music industry in Perth during these decades, this article addresses the specific circumstances that saw rock music come to be performed in suburban hotels in Perth…
Sleepy township
Indie rock came of age in the 1990s, transitioning from its status as an industrial classification, a set of stylistic markers and a form of sub-cultural identification to a recognisable branding tool for major labels and mass media. In Perth, Western Australia, this process was framed through specific geographical and socio-cultural circumstances including the city's isolation and the existence of a strong middle class, which gave rise to a regi…
Earth sound earth signal
There is something unsettling and ironically otherworldly about the collision of art and science. As disciplines that attempt to explain and situate our place in the cosmos, Douglas Kahn proposes i
Earth sound earth signal
There is something unsettling and ironically otherworldly about the collision of art and science. As disciplines that attempt to explain and situate our place in the cosmos, Douglas Kahn proposes i
Sleepy township
Indie rock came of age in the 1990s, transitioning from its status as an industrial classification, a set of stylistic markers and a form of sub-cultural identification to a recognisable branding tool for major labels and mass media. In Perth, Western Australia, this process was framed through specific geographical and socio-cultural circumstances including the city's isolation and the existence of a strong middle class, which gave rise to a regi…
“Making Do in Ways That We Hadn't Done Before”: The Early Popular Music Industry in Perth
Fruit Band, Rock Band
The performance of popular music in pubs is a long established tradition in Australia and, through various socio-cultural and legislative processes, it became a dominant form of entertainment throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with musicians and those working in the music industry in Perth during these decades, this article addresses the specific circumstances that saw rock music come to be performed in suburban hotels in Perth…
Perth punk and the construction of urbanity in a suburban city
As a musical form, punk is often associated with urbanity, as embodied in the scenes in both London and New York, and in an Australian national context by the scenes in Melbourne and Sydney. In Perth, Western Australia - a primarily middle-class suburban city without a distinct inner city - punk was expressed differently. While the music itself exemplified many of the stylistic traits associated with the genre, punk in Perth was articulated throu…
Nothing happens here
This essay examines Perth as portrayed through the lyrics of popular songs written by people who grew up in the city. These lyrics tend to reproduce the dominant myths about the city: that it is isolated, that it is self-satisfied, that little happens there. Perth became the focus of song lyrics during the late 1970s time of punk with titles such as 'Arsehole of the Universe' and 'Perth Is a Culture Shock'. Even the Eurogliders' 1984 hit, 'Heaven…
From Snake Pits to Ballrooms
In the late 1950s, rock’n’roll as both a musical genre and a pervasive youth cultural form spread from the U.S. to emerge in various regionalized forms throughout most Western societies. From its roots in working-class culture to its eventual commercial embrace by middle-class audiences, rock’n’roll developed in Perth through a set of specific circumstances linked to both racial and class-based factors, distinctive to the city as a small, isolate…
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