Australasian Music Research

Australasian Music Research (AMR) was founded in 1996 to promote study of all areas of research pertaining to Australian music and musicians, institutions and organisations, and in all styles and genres. Studies range from classical to popular, indigenous and traditional musics, including the regional, social and ethnic communities which have shaped Australian music from its origins to the present.

Originally conceived as an annual peer-reviewed journal, volumes 1-8 of AMR were published between 1996 and 2003 by the Centre for Studies in Australian Music (CSAM) at the University of Melbourne. After a brief hiatus, publication of AMR has resumed under the auspices of Lyrebird Press, and is undergoing transformation from a journal to a monograph series. AMR 9 is the transitional volume through which this migration to a new format is being effected, and with AMR 10, Up Is Down: A Life of Violinist Jan Sedivka by Elinor Morrisby, the transformation to a monograph series is complete. Future volumes will include monographic anthologies as well as single-author titles.

Australasian Music Research invites inquiries and proposals for volumes of approximately 80,000–100,000 words, framed according to the AMR Guidelines for Submission of Book Proposals, should be submitted to the series editor, Dr Suzanne Robinson, by email at srobi@unimelb.edu.au or by post to Lyrebird Press (see Contact page).

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Growing Up Making Music: Youth Orchestras in Australia and the World AMR009

Edited by Margaret Kartomi and Kay Dreyfus with David Pear

This is the first detailed scholarly study of youth orchestras. Led by a team of researchers from Monash University in Australia, it focuses on the lives, aims, repertory, economics and educational outcomes that orchestras set out to develop.

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Up Is Down: A Life of Violinist Jan Sedivka AMR010

Elinor Morrisby

Jan Sedivka, violinist and pedagogue, has been a towering figure in string playing in Australia for over forty-five years. This is Sedivka’s story: it encompasses the ups and downs of his extraordinary life.

AMR Volumes 1-8 available from CSAM

Volume 8 (2003)—Music and the Australian Media
Edited by Dr Anne-Marie Forbes.
Table of contents
Introduction
Abstracts
Volume 7 (2002)
Edited by Deborah Crisp.
Table of contents
Introduction
Abstracts
Volume 6 (2001)
Edited by Dr Kay Dreyfus.
Table of contents
Introduction
Abstracts
Volume 5 (2000)—Percy Grainger Issue
Edited by Prof Malcolm Gillies and Dr Mark Carroll.
Table of contents
Introduction
Abstracts
Volume 4 (1999)
Edited by Dr Kay Dreyfus.
Table of contents
Editorial
Abstracts
Volume 2/3 (1997-8)
Edited by Dr Royston Gustavson with assistant editors Suzanne Cole and Jennifer Hill, contains items by Roland Bannister, Dianne Gome, Tom Hall, Kathleen E Nelson, Peter O'Byrne, Adrienne Simpson, Gordon D Spearritt, Bruce Steele, Jill Stubington, Adrian Thomas, Wang Zheng-Ting.
Volume 1 (1996)
Edited by Dr Royston Gustavson, includes writings by Andrew D McCredie, Thérèse Radic, Deborah Crisp, Dianne Gome, Kay Dreyfus, Peter Burgis, Naomi Cumming, Gregg Howard, Jamie Kassler, Richard Moyle, Suzanne Robinson, Genevieve Jordan and Jodi Clark.