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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Before the Big Bang
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The emergence and development of rock'n'roll music in Australia before the Big Bang of Australian rock'n'roll, namely, the arrival of Johnny O'Keefe on the music scene are discussed. The efforts of several musicians such as Les Welch, Nellie Small and Vic Sabrino and music companies from 1950 to 1958 are traced, when Johnny O'Keefe recorded 'The Wild One', the first hit Australian rock'n'roll record.

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin On Rock'n'Roll vol. 65 no. 3 2006 Z1319082 2006 periodical issue 2006 pg. 4-14
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin Anthology Sally Heath (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2012 14208447 2012 anthology poetry short story

    'Meanjin is Australia's second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation's writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began. Readers will get a sense of the debates waged in print over those seven decades and the growing confidence of the Australian written voice.

    'The collection will interest the general reader, the literary enthusiast and those interested in Australian culture.

    'The anthology has been compiled by current Meanjin editor Sally Heath, associate editor Zora Sanders, poetry editor Judith Beveridge, Richard McGregor and Emma Fajgenbaum.'  (Publication summary)

    Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2012
    pg. 322-334
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