Perfect Beat
The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture
(ISSN: 1038-2909)

Volume 8, Number 1, 2006

Contents
  • Introduction
    Mark Evans and Denis Crowdy (Editors)
  • Summertime in Indonesia?
    The Indonesian Jazz All-Stars 1967 tour of Europe
    Andrew W. Hurley
  • A thing well made?
    NZ settler indentity and Pakeha masculinity in the work of Don McGlashan
    Matthew Bannister
  • From The Top
    Local difference and issues of heritage identity in the formulation of music policy for Darwin
    Philip Hayward
  • It's more than a T-shirt
    Neo-tribal sociality and linking images at Australian Indie Music Festivals
    Joanne Cummings

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Publication Reviews

Walley, D (2006) Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the post-Elvis Age, New York: Routledge
- Marin Cloonan

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Taylor, S (2003) False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press (Includes six track CD of False Prophet Songs)
- Steven Threagold

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Evans, M & Walden, G (eds) (2005) Markets & Margins: Australian Country Music, Volume 3, Gympie (Queensland): AICM Press
- Shirley Tucker

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Brackett, D (ed) (2005) The Pop, Rock and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates, New York: Oxford University Press
- Liz Giuffre

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Smith, G (2005) Singing Australian: A History of Folk and Country Music, North Melbourne: Pluto Press
- Mark Gregory

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Stafford, A (2004) Pig City: From The Saints to Savage Garden, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press
- Shane Homan

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Perfect Beat is published by the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.