Tony Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Childhood Adversity and Life Satisfaction in Adults with Alternative Care Experience in 12 Low- and Middle-Income Nations
Adults with care experience have elevated rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and a greater likelihood of poor outcomes. Some research has examined how protective factors and resilience impact outcomes among care leavers, but few studies include those from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Further, little work has examined the interactive impact of protective factors and resilience in this population. We investigated (a) the pre…
Lorde
In her essay ‘Mainstream as Metaphor: Imagining Dominant Culture’, Alison Huber lists some of the values often assigned to mainstream pop music in Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style, and other sources, both ‘popularly and academically’ – ‘banal, homogeneous, unsophisticated, undiscerning, uncultured, low, inauthentic, fake, commercial, conservative, conformist or just plain stupid’ – before going on to defend it. Pop ‘mainstreamness’…
Moral Panics, National Pride and Split Images
This article analyses the various components of the national music press culture of New Zealand since the 1960s, considering the role of various print media organs in promoting and constructing a New Zealand rock identity
Aotearoa Songlines
In his discussion article, Mitchell foregrounds some of the themes that permeate each of the papers, reinforcing their contemporary importance in the field of popular music studies
Brophy, P (2004) 100 Modern Soundtracks
Brophy, P (2004) 100 Modern Soundtracks, London: British Film Institute Publishing
Carlo Branzaglia, Pierfrancesco Pacoda and Alba Solaro (1992) Posse italiane
Carlo Branzaglia, Pierfrancesco Pacoda and Alba Solaro (1992) Posse italiane: centri sociali, underground musicale e cultura giovanile degli anni '90 in Italia (The Italian Posses: Social Centres, the Musical Underground and Youth Culture in Italy in the '90s), Florence, Editoriale Tosca
Flying in the Face of Fashion
A survey of the local, independent music in New Zealand, its overseas reception and musical identities in New Zealand
New Zealand Music on the Internet
Mitchell provides a detailed case study of the organisation, nature of interactions and taste agendas of the NZPOP Internet mailing list, illustrating the manner in which musical identity comes to be displaced and (re )defined through particular sets of discursive practices
North Meets South
World Music, Indigenous Music and Music Television in Australia
This article surveys the air time and attention given to Black and non-Anglo musicians in the Australian music television market, finding that mainstream, Anglo performers continue to prevail and examining some of the possible reasons for this, including the suggestion that politically and socially conservative view points resist the often radical lyrics and performance styles of rap and non-mainstream genres
The Maori Teachings of Pakeha Rapper Maitreya
The Christchurch MC Maitreya was ejected from his school class at age 15 and banished to a third form te reo Māori class. This fostered a life-long interest in te reo, which he deployed when he started rapping, first with Christchurch crew Nil State in 1995, then with Dark Tower in Auckland in 1998. He also began studying with Māori DJ DLT, who suggested he take the name ‘Maitreya’, or ‘emerging teacher’. After moving to the USA in 2003 and manag…
The Necks at 25
This article argues that the Sydney-based jazz improvisers The Necks have pursued a successful career over 25 years despite the scathing review given them by prominent US jazz critic John Litweiler, and that contrary to Litweiler’s account, they in fact form part of a continuing tradition (a ‘changing same’) in jazz started by Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue. The article consists mostly of a discussion between the author and group members Chris …
New Zealand Glimpsed through Iceland
Psychogeography has been applied to music in relation to the way in which music can express both a spirit of place and a topographical dimension in which musical forms, idioms and modes of expression mirror features of landscape and cityscape. This artic
Migration, Memory and Hong Kong as a 'Space of Transit' in Clara Law's Autumn Moon
Macau-born and Melbourne-based film maker Clara Law and her screenwriter-producer-director husband Eddie Fong have produced a transnational output of films which are beginning to receive critical recognition as major contributions to contemporary cinema. These 'films of migration' explore what Gina Marchetti has encapsulated as 'the Chinese experience of dislocation, relocation, emigration, immigration, cultural hybridity, migrancy, exile, and no…
Blackfellas rapping, breaking and writing
The history of hip hop in A ustralia is largely a question of often com peting oral histo ries of local developm ents in various places. It began w ith breakdancing, largely inspired by M alcolm M cLaren's 1983 video clip Buffalo gals, w hich w as follow ed by o u t breaks of graffiti w riting, inspired by Charlie A h earn's 1982 film Style wars. Rapping, rhym ing and DJ-ing followed on, partly encouraged by Stan L atham 's 1984 film Beat street,…
Entries
Sonic psychogeography
This article explores aspects of the relationship between music, place, locality and identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. While there have been numerous attempts to construct a national identity for New Zealand music (often referred to as ‘Kiwi’ music), I will argue that there is far more comprehensive evidence of a range of regional musics, which go beyond examples such as the Flying Nun-Dunedin Christchurch and roots-reggae-dub-Wellington nexus, a…
The Diy Habitus of Australian Hip Hop
Since its origins in the late 1980s, Australian hip hop continues to be fundamentally a do-it-yourself (DIY) subcultural field which has little or no music industry input or support. This paper profiles some of the small labels and producers in Australian hip hop (Obese, Elefant Traks, Nuff Said, Crookneck, Invada, etc.) and examines how they have formed from the ground up, using community radio stations such as 2SER, PBS and 3ZZZ, and websites s…
Paolo Conte
Paolo Conte is the most internationally successful of the Italian singer-songwriters who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also among the most idiosyncratic, eclectic and unusual exponents of what Franco Fabbri has defined as the canzone d'autore (author's song). Nonetheless he remains a rather arcane, cult figure in the Anglophone world - an example of what Simon Frith has called 'the unpopular popular'. A combination of apparent opposites -…
Introduction—Culture Fix
The papers of this special issue of Continuum arise out of the annual Australian and New Zealand Cultural Studies conference which was organized in 2005 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship
Clara Law's film Floating Life was the first Australian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and the first Australian film to deal with migrant Hong Kong Chinese identities 'from inside'. From perspectives of transnational Chinese migration and flexible citizenship, this article looks at Floating Life as a Hong Kong Chinese migrant reading of Australia, which defamiliarizes and recontextualizes familiar Australian localities a…
Global noise
Doin’ damage in my native language
This chapter examines the use of indigenous languages other than English in rap music in Zimbabwe, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Aotearoa/New Zealand as more appropriate examples of resistance vernaculars. These examples of resistance vernaculars re-territorialize not only major Anglophone rules of intelligibility but also those of other standard languages such as French and Italian. The variety of ethnic origins among French rappers, from the …
Flat city sounds
Popular Music and Local Identity
Global noise
Doin’ damage in my native language
This chapter examines the use of indigenous languages other than English in rap music in Zimbabwe, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Aotearoa/New Zealand as more appropriate examples of resistance vernaculars. These examples of resistance vernaculars re-territorialize not only major Anglophone rules of intelligibility but also those of other standard languages such as French and Italian. The variety of ethnic origins among French rappers, from the …
Mixing pop and politics
Rock and pop music in the USSR and eastern Europe has become an area of increasing interest to both the western mass media and cultural studies since glasnost, perestroika, the collapse of the Eastern bloc Communist regimes and the constitution of new western-styled democratic governments. This is largely because rock music has represented probably the most widespread vehicle of youth rebellion, resistance and independence behind the Iron Curtain…
World Music and the Popular Music Industry
En prenant l'exemple de l'Australie, l'A., qui s'appuie sur les observations de Garafalo, montre les relations entre les musiques du monde et le commerce international de ce genre de musiques : les musiques hybrides - ou le style indigene est remixe en fonction du gout europeen qui s'approprie et deracine la conception originale - sont frequentes. Cette interpenetration permet cependant a l'Europeen de connaitre une nouvelle musique. Les notions …
Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship
Clara Law's film Floating Life was the first Australian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and the first Australian film to deal with migrant Hong Kong Chinese identities 'from inside'. From perspectives of transnational Chinese migration and flexible citizenship, this article looks at Floating Life as a Hong Kong Chinese migrant reading of Australia, which defamiliarizes and recontextualizes familiar Australian localities a…
New Zealand Glimpsed through Iceland
Psychogeography has been applied to music in relation to the way in which music can express both a spirit of place and a topographical dimension in which musical forms, idioms and modes of expression mirror features of landscape and cityscape. This artic
Questions of style
In his article ‘Rock music and politics in Italy’, Umberto Fiori deploys the example of an open-air concert by Genesis in Tirrenia in the province of Pisa, promoted in the summer of 1982 by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) as part of its annual Feste dell'Unita , as a summary example of de-politicisation of the consumption and production of rock music in Italy, and the institutionalisation of the oppositional, dissenting aspects of rock music th…
Flat city sounds
Treaty Now! Indigenous Music and Music Television in Australia
Performance and the Postmodern in Pop Music
Jean-Francois Lyotard has defined postmodern condition as incredulity towards metanarratives . . . To obsolescence of metanarrative apparatus of legitimation corresponds, most notably, crisis of metaphysical philosophy and of university institution which in past relied on it.' The unifying, totalizing metanarratives of knowledge and interpretation have fragmented and decentered into a series of Wittgensteinian language games in which specialized …
The Diy Habitus of Australian Hip Hop
Since its origins in the late 1980s, Australian hip hop continues to be fundamentally a do-it-yourself (DIY) subcultural field which has little or no music industry input or support. This paper profiles some of the small labels and producers in Australian hip hop (Obese, Elefant Traks, Nuff Said, Crookneck, Invada, etc.) and examines how they have formed from the ground up, using community radio stations such as 2SER, PBS and 3ZZZ, and websites s…
Terpsichorean Architecture
‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do,’ is a statement usually attributed to Elvis Costello in Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983, 52), which has long been quoted as evidence of the impossibility of writing adequately about the processes of producing and listening to music. Leaving aside the fact that Costello has denied he ever said it, and it has been mistakenly attributed to a nu…
Performance and the Postmodern in Pop Music
Jean-Francois Lyotard has defined postmodern condition as incredulity towards metanarratives . . . To obsolescence of metanarrative apparatus of legitimation corresponds, most notably, crisis of metaphysical philosophy and of university institution which in past relied on it.' The unifying, totalizing metanarratives of knowledge and interpretation have fragmented and decentered into a series of Wittgensteinian language games in which specialized …
Scrittura Femminile
The of Italian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright Dacia Maraini is not well known in English-speaking world despite fact that six of her eight novels have appeared in English and at least ten of her more than thirty plays have been performed outside Italy. Since Denise Stoklos's production of Mary Stuart (Maria Stuarda, 1980) at La Mama in 1987 and Michael Smith's production of Clytemnestra's Dream (I Sogni di Clitennestra, 19…
Mixing pop and politics
Rock and pop music in the USSR and eastern Europe has become an area of increasing interest to both the western mass media and cultural studies since glasnost, perestroika, the collapse of the Eastern bloc Communist regimes and the constitution of new western-styled democratic governments. This is largely because rock music has represented probably the most widespread vehicle of youth rebellion, resistance and independence behind the Iron Curtain…
Treaty Now! Indigenous Music and Music Television in Australia
World Music and the Popular Music Industry
En prenant l'exemple de l'Australie, l'A., qui s'appuie sur les observations de Garafalo, montre les relations entre les musiques du monde et le commerce international de ce genre de musiques : les musiques hybrides - ou le style indigene est remixe en fonction du gout europeen qui s'approprie et deracine la conception originale - sont frequentes. Cette interpenetration permet cependant a l'Europeen de connaitre une nouvelle musique. Les notions …
Questions of style
In his article ‘Rock music and politics in Italy’, Umberto Fiori deploys the example of an open-air concert by Genesis in Tirrenia in the province of Pisa, promoted in the summer of 1982 by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) as part of its annual Feste dell'Unita , as a summary example of de-politicisation of the consumption and production of rock music in Italy, and the institutionalisation of the oppositional, dissenting aspects of rock music th…
Flat city sounds
Popular Music and Local Identity
Doin’ damage in my native language
This chapter examines the use of indigenous languages other than English in rap music in Zimbabwe, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Aotearoa/New Zealand as more appropriate examples of resistance vernaculars. These examples of resistance vernaculars re-territorialize not only major Anglophone rules of intelligibility but also those of other standard languages such as French and Italian. The variety of ethnic origins among French rappers, from the …
Global noise
Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship
Clara Law's film Floating Life was the first Australian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and the first Australian film to deal with migrant Hong Kong Chinese identities 'from inside'. From perspectives of transnational Chinese migration and flexible citizenship, this article looks at Floating Life as a Hong Kong Chinese migrant reading of Australia, which defamiliarizes and recontextualizes familiar Australian localities a…
Introduction—Culture Fix
The papers of this special issue of Continuum arise out of the annual Australian and New Zealand Cultural Studies conference which was organized in 2005 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
The Diy Habitus of Australian Hip Hop
Since its origins in the late 1980s, Australian hip hop continues to be fundamentally a do-it-yourself (DIY) subcultural field which has little or no music industry input or support. This paper profiles some of the small labels and producers in Australian hip hop (Obese, Elefant Traks, Nuff Said, Crookneck, Invada, etc.) and examines how they have formed from the ground up, using community radio stations such as 2SER, PBS and 3ZZZ, and websites s…
Paolo Conte
Paolo Conte is the most internationally successful of the Italian singer-songwriters who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also among the most idiosyncratic, eclectic and unusual exponents of what Franco Fabbri has defined as the canzone d'autore (author's song). Nonetheless he remains a rather arcane, cult figure in the Anglophone world - an example of what Simon Frith has called 'the unpopular popular'. A combination of apparent opposites -…
Entries
Sonic psychogeography
This article explores aspects of the relationship between music, place, locality and identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. While there have been numerous attempts to construct a national identity for New Zealand music (often referred to as ‘Kiwi’ music), I will argue that there is far more comprehensive evidence of a range of regional musics, which go beyond examples such as the Flying Nun-Dunedin Christchurch and roots-reggae-dub-Wellington nexus, a…
Blackfellas rapping, breaking and writing
The history of hip hop in A ustralia is largely a question of often com peting oral histo ries of local developm ents in various places. It began w ith breakdancing, largely inspired by M alcolm M cLaren's 1983 video clip Buffalo gals, w hich w as follow ed by o u t breaks of graffiti w riting, inspired by Charlie A h earn's 1982 film Style wars. Rapping, rhym ing and DJ-ing followed on, partly encouraged by Stan L atham 's 1984 film Beat street,…
The Necks at 25
This article argues that the Sydney-based jazz improvisers The Necks have pursued a successful career over 25 years despite the scathing review given them by prominent US jazz critic John Litweiler, and that contrary to Litweiler’s account, they in fact form part of a continuing tradition (a ‘changing same’) in jazz started by Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue. The article consists mostly of a discussion between the author and group members Chris …
New Zealand Glimpsed through Iceland
Psychogeography has been applied to music in relation to the way in which music can express both a spirit of place and a topographical dimension in which musical forms, idioms and modes of expression mirror features of landscape and cityscape. This artic
Migration, Memory and Hong Kong as a 'Space of Transit' in Clara Law's Autumn Moon
Macau-born and Melbourne-based film maker Clara Law and her screenwriter-producer-director husband Eddie Fong have produced a transnational output of films which are beginning to receive critical recognition as major contributions to contemporary cinema. These 'films of migration' explore what Gina Marchetti has encapsulated as 'the Chinese experience of dislocation, relocation, emigration, immigration, cultural hybridity, migrancy, exile, and no…
The Maori Teachings of Pakeha Rapper Maitreya
The Christchurch MC Maitreya was ejected from his school class at age 15 and banished to a third form te reo Māori class. This fostered a life-long interest in te reo, which he deployed when he started rapping, first with Christchurch crew Nil State in 1995, then with Dark Tower in Auckland in 1998. He also began studying with Māori DJ DLT, who suggested he take the name ‘Maitreya’, or ‘emerging teacher’. After moving to the USA in 2003 and manag…
Moral Panics, National Pride and Split Images
This article analyses the various components of the national music press culture of New Zealand since the 1960s, considering the role of various print media organs in promoting and constructing a New Zealand rock identity
Aotearoa Songlines
In his discussion article, Mitchell foregrounds some of the themes that permeate each of the papers, reinforcing their contemporary importance in the field of popular music studies
Brophy, P (2004) 100 Modern Soundtracks
Brophy, P (2004) 100 Modern Soundtracks, London: British Film Institute Publishing
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