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y separately published work icon John Farnham's Whispering Jack multi chapter work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 John Farnham's Whispering Jack
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'The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Bloomsbury Academic ,       2022 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 128p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 June 2022.
      ISBN: 9781501382062
      Series: y separately published work icon 33 1/3 Oceania London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2022- 25266618 2022 series - publisher criticism

      'Spanning a range of artists and genres from Australian Indigenous artists to Maori and Pasifika artists, from Aotearoa/New Zealand noise music to Australian rock, and including music from Papua and other Pacific islands, 33 1/3 Oceania offers exciting accounts of albums that illustrate the wide range of music made in the Oceania region.'

      Source: Publisher's blurb.
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