Jon Fitzgerald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Fitzgerald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzgerald |
| SIGNATURE | FITZGERALD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maracatu Nação Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is situated approximately 430 km from the northeast coast of Brazil, and is the only populated island within a UNESCO World Heritage-listed archipelago of the same name. This article focusses on the contemporary maracatu ensemble based on the island, Maracatu Nao Noronha, and its significance within the local community. Maracatu is a distinctive northeast Brazilian performance genre with historical links to Candombl, an Afro-B…
Sounding Northeast Brazil
Despite the richness of Northeast Brazil’s musical culture, popular music from the region has received relatively little public and scholarly attention. This article, based on field research by the authors in 2012 and 2014, examines manifestations of Brazilian musical genres on the island of Fernando de Noronha—a pocket of concentrated musical activity within the Northeast state of Pernambuco. While musicians service the tourist market by offerin…
Chart Mythos
The JAMs and The KLF, two overlapping popular music ensembles led by British multi-media performers Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, were notable for both the success they had with a batch of singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the complex mythology they constructed and celebrated in song lyrics, music videos, press releases and short films.Key to their mythological project was their association with the fictional lost island-continent of…
Down Into The Fire
Fitzgerald's article examines the work of session musicians and arrangers in the recording of popular music. He considers issues of music copyright as one aspect of understanding and acknowledging the musical roles and activities which take place
Screen Scores
Coyle, Rebecca (ed) (1998) Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian Film Music, Sydney: Australian Film Television and Radio School
Island intersections
This article examines the intersections between musical practices and tourism on the island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, and draws on field research undertaken by the authors in 2012 and 2014. Tourism currently represents the major source of income for island residents, and musical activity is largely oriented towards the tourism industry. Complex patterns of interconnectivity become apparent when one traces specific links between tourism and …
Human machine music
This article presents a participant–observer documentation and analysis of creative practices among a group of contemporary Australian musicians working within the field of ‘live electronica’ (LE)—defined as electronic dance music (EDM) performed for an audience in real time by a group of musicians without the aid of machine/computer-controlled sound generation sequences. Australian LE emerged in the 1990s and went through a period of development…
Planes of illusion
Mainstream commercial cinema’s increasing access to highly advanced computer-generated imagery (CGI) has allowed it to produce convincing evocations of places and experiences that increasingly blur the line between the represented ‘real’ of actual locations and digitally generated fictional spaces. This article discusses one such evocation: the spectacular cave system featured in the film Sanctum (2011), directed by Alister Grierson. The first pa…
Make ’em laugh, make ’em cry
This article examines the use of ‘production music’ in an Australian ‘reality TV’ programme, Nerds FC. Production music (or ’library music’) represents an important source of generic soundtrack material, and is created by musicians for specialist production music companies, who license the music for TV, film, radio and other media. Despite its pervasive presence, however, production music is a largely anonymous and undocumented area within screen…
Creating Those Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson is widely acknowledged as one the most talented and influential artists in the history of popular music. Given his re‐emergence as a recording and concert artist after decades of illness and the recent fortieth anniversary (2006) of his best‐loved hit “Good Vibrations,” it seems timely to engage in a detailed examination of some of the work that established his reputation. This paper analyses all of Wilson's US Top 40 hits from 1963 …
Songwriters in the U.S. top forty, 1963–1966
Lennon‐McCartney and the “Middle Eight”
When the Brill building met Lennon‐McCartney
Motown crossover hits 1963-1966 and the creative process
In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in early Motown songs, many of which have received widespread exposure via successful films such as The Big Chill, My Girl, The Commitments, Father of The Bride and Sister Act. The steady flow of CD re-releases and contemporary 'covers' further attests to the continuing appeal and relevance of the music
Motown crossover hits 1963-1966 and the creative process
In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in early Motown songs, many of which have received widespread exposure via successful films such as The Big Chill, My Girl, The Commitments, Father of The Bride and Sister Act. The steady flow of CD re-releases and contemporary 'covers' further attests to the continuing appeal and relevance of the music
Songwriters in the U.S. top forty, 1963–1966
When the Brill building met Lennon‐McCartney
Chart Mythos
The JAMs and The KLF, two overlapping popular music ensembles led by British multi-media performers Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, were notable for both the success they had with a batch of singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the complex mythology they constructed and celebrated in song lyrics, music videos, press releases and short films.Key to their mythological project was their association with the fictional lost island-continent of…
Creating Those Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson is widely acknowledged as one the most talented and influential artists in the history of popular music. Given his re‐emergence as a recording and concert artist after decades of illness and the recent fortieth anniversary (2006) of his best‐loved hit “Good Vibrations,” it seems timely to engage in a detailed examination of some of the work that established his reputation. This paper analyses all of Wilson's US Top 40 hits from 1963 …
When the Brill building met Lennon‐McCartney
Motown crossover hits 1963-1966 and the creative process
In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in early Motown songs, many of which have received widespread exposure via successful films such as The Big Chill, My Girl, The Commitments, Father of The Bride and Sister Act. The steady flow of CD re-releases and contemporary 'covers' further attests to the continuing appeal and relevance of the music
Lennon‐McCartney and the “Middle Eight”
Songwriters in the U.S. top forty, 1963–1966
Make ’em laugh, make ’em cry
This article examines the use of ‘production music’ in an Australian ‘reality TV’ programme, Nerds FC. Production music (or ’library music’) represents an important source of generic soundtrack material, and is created by musicians for specialist production music companies, who license the music for TV, film, radio and other media. Despite its pervasive presence, however, production music is a largely anonymous and undocumented area within screen…
Creating Those Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson is widely acknowledged as one the most talented and influential artists in the history of popular music. Given his re‐emergence as a recording and concert artist after decades of illness and the recent fortieth anniversary (2006) of his best‐loved hit “Good Vibrations,” it seems timely to engage in a detailed examination of some of the work that established his reputation. This paper analyses all of Wilson's US Top 40 hits from 1963 …
Human machine music
This article presents a participant–observer documentation and analysis of creative practices among a group of contemporary Australian musicians working within the field of ‘live electronica’ (LE)—defined as electronic dance music (EDM) performed for an audience in real time by a group of musicians without the aid of machine/computer-controlled sound generation sequences. Australian LE emerged in the 1990s and went through a period of development…
Planes of illusion
Mainstream commercial cinema’s increasing access to highly advanced computer-generated imagery (CGI) has allowed it to produce convincing evocations of places and experiences that increasingly blur the line between the represented ‘real’ of actual locations and digitally generated fictional spaces. This article discusses one such evocation: the spectacular cave system featured in the film Sanctum (2011), directed by Alister Grierson. The first pa…
Down Into The Fire
Fitzgerald's article examines the work of session musicians and arrangers in the recording of popular music. He considers issues of music copyright as one aspect of understanding and acknowledging the musical roles and activities which take place
Screen Scores
Coyle, Rebecca (ed) (1998) Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian Film Music, Sydney: Australian Film Television and Radio School
Island intersections
This article examines the intersections between musical practices and tourism on the island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, and draws on field research undertaken by the authors in 2012 and 2014. Tourism currently represents the major source of income for island residents, and musical activity is largely oriented towards the tourism industry. Complex patterns of interconnectivity become apparent when one traces specific links between tourism and …
Sounding Northeast Brazil
Despite the richness of Northeast Brazil’s musical culture, popular music from the region has received relatively little public and scholarly attention. This article, based on field research by the authors in 2012 and 2014, examines manifestations of Brazilian musical genres on the island of Fernando de Noronha—a pocket of concentrated musical activity within the Northeast state of Pernambuco. While musicians service the tourist market by offerin…
Chart Mythos
The JAMs and The KLF, two overlapping popular music ensembles led by British multi-media performers Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, were notable for both the success they had with a batch of singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the complex mythology they constructed and celebrated in song lyrics, music videos, press releases and short films.Key to their mythological project was their association with the fictional lost island-continent of…
Maracatu Nação Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is situated approximately 430 km from the northeast coast of Brazil, and is the only populated island within a UNESCO World Heritage-listed archipelago of the same name. This article focusses on the contemporary maracatu ensemble based on the island, Maracatu Nao Noronha, and its significance within the local community. Maracatu is a distinctive northeast Brazilian performance genre with historical links to Candombl, an Afro-B…
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