Oli Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4802501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oli Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oli |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3715-0569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More than ‘clips of dead fish’: Gender, technologisation, and localisation in the amateur music videos of Wellington spearfishers
This article explores the use of music in service of anthropocentric discourses and practices. We analyse spearfishing music (music synchronised with amateur online videos of spearfishing) as it has emerged in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through textual analysis of the gendered codes present in 40 locally produced videos, we interrogate how such practices exacerbate inequalities already present in music conventions, thus conjoining localise…
Not our ‘Dunedin sound: Responses to the historicisation of Dunedin popular music
The music that was produced in Dunedin, New Zealand, during the 1980's occupies a unique place in the global indie music canon. In writing about this supposed ‘Dunedin sound,' critics and scholars alike have fixated on the city's remoteness: it is believed to be distant from metropolitan centres of music industry power and influence, and consequently supported a subversive and democratised local music scene. This article explores the implications…
Music Video and Online Social Media: A Case Study of the Discourse around Japanese Imagery in the New Zealand Indie Scene
This article offers original insights into the construction of musical meaning through an intensification and bricolage of postmodern discourse as a result of music video as online media. The discussion contributes to contemporary popular music scholarship by discussing the ‘Stranger People’ video by Dop- rah, an indie band from Christchurch, New Zealand, with particular focus on Japanese imagery and online social media. The significance of ‘Stra…
An interview with Tiki Taane: Expressing cultural heritage and identity through music
In this Riff article, Oli Wilson engages in a discussion with Tiki Taane, who is one of New Zealand's most successful and celebrated musicians. The interview explores and outlines the fluidity of contemporary musical representations of Maori culture and identity in Taane's music, and provides new perspectives on popular music’s capacity to express indigeneity in a New Zealand context
Lookin, searchin, seekin, findin’: A new beat
Popular Music as Local Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the Album Matha Wa! by the Band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea
This paper explores the capacity for commercially recorded popular music to sustain local culture by presenting the ways in which recordings by the band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea are imbued with meanings that are understood locally as having roots in traditional culture. I present examples in the form of song texts from the album Matha Wa! (1981) to demonstrate how traditional metaphors and cultural practices surrounding music comp…
Signifiers of indigeneity in Australian and New Zealand popular music
This paper explores the notion of indigenous cultural identity in Australia and New Zealand by examining how indigenous culture is represented in popular music, specifically, through ‘known’ signifiers of indigenous culture. This paper argues that these signifiers are limited to specific instrumentation, musical characteristics such as rhythm and melody, and indigenous language. These findings are reached through an examination of the extant lite…
Popular Music as Local Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the Album Matha Wa! by the Band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea
This paper explores the capacity for commercially recorded popular music to sustain local culture by presenting the ways in which recordings by the band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea are imbued with meanings that are understood locally as having roots in traditional culture. I present examples in the form of song texts from the album Matha Wa! (1981) to demonstrate how traditional metaphors and cultural practices surrounding music comp…
Signifiers of indigeneity in Australian and New Zealand popular music
This paper explores the notion of indigenous cultural identity in Australia and New Zealand by examining how indigenous culture is represented in popular music, specifically, through ‘known’ signifiers of indigenous culture. This paper argues that these signifiers are limited to specific instrumentation, musical characteristics such as rhythm and melody, and indigenous language. These findings are reached through an examination of the extant lite…
Popular Music as Local Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the Album Matha Wa! by the Band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea
This paper explores the capacity for commercially recorded popular music to sustain local culture by presenting the ways in which recordings by the band Paramana Strangers from Papua New Guinea are imbued with meanings that are understood locally as having roots in traditional culture. I present examples in the form of song texts from the album Matha Wa! (1981) to demonstrate how traditional metaphors and cultural practices surrounding music comp…
An interview with Tiki Taane: Expressing cultural heritage and identity through music
In this Riff article, Oli Wilson engages in a discussion with Tiki Taane, who is one of New Zealand's most successful and celebrated musicians. The interview explores and outlines the fluidity of contemporary musical representations of Maori culture and identity in Taane's music, and provides new perspectives on popular music’s capacity to express indigeneity in a New Zealand context
Lookin, searchin, seekin, findin’: A new beat
Music Video and Online Social Media: A Case Study of the Discourse around Japanese Imagery in the New Zealand Indie Scene
This article offers original insights into the construction of musical meaning through an intensification and bricolage of postmodern discourse as a result of music video as online media. The discussion contributes to contemporary popular music scholarship by discussing the ‘Stranger People’ video by Dop- rah, an indie band from Christchurch, New Zealand, with particular focus on Japanese imagery and online social media. The significance of ‘Stra…
More than ‘clips of dead fish’: Gender, technologisation, and localisation in the amateur music videos of Wellington spearfishers
This article explores the use of music in service of anthropocentric discourses and practices. We analyse spearfishing music (music synchronised with amateur online videos of spearfishing) as it has emerged in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through textual analysis of the gendered codes present in 40 locally produced videos, we interrogate how such practices exacerbate inequalities already present in music conventions, thus conjoining localise…
Not our ‘Dunedin sound: Responses to the historicisation of Dunedin popular music
The music that was produced in Dunedin, New Zealand, during the 1980's occupies a unique place in the global indie music canon. In writing about this supposed ‘Dunedin sound,' critics and scholars alike have fixated on the city's remoteness: it is believed to be distant from metropolitan centres of music industry power and influence, and consequently supported a subversive and democratised local music scene. This article explores the implications…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Popular music (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Musical (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)