This bibliography covers a range of topics relating to Australian culture in the 1960s, most particularly those issues that had the greatest impact on Australian society. It focuses on the National Museum of Australia Library collection, and resources that are accessible through the Library Intranet.The sixties was a time of immense social change throughout the Western world, and has become synonymous with new, radical and extreme trends in all areas of public and private life.
The development of a youth counter-culture represented the challenge by many young Australians to the conservative and complacent fifties, expressing their rebellion through style, dress, appearance, drugs, relationships, sexuality, ideas, politics, music, art and the search for the self-fulfilment.
The uniformity of Australian mainstream culture was further challenged by the rise of a range of new social movements which expressed the tensions within Australian society as marginalised members of the community grew in self-awareness and began to challenge the inequities of entrenched social structures of power and control. Groups such as indigenous peoples, immigrants, homosexuals and women began to organise and agitate for an end to discrimination and exclusion. The growth of the anti-war protest movement spread from university campuses to the wider community, and indicated the strength of the new radicalisation growing in Australian society.
However, not all Australians responded to the changing spirit of the times. The material prosperity enjoyed by many Australians during this period saw the retention of a conservative coalition Government throughout the decade, and although the sixties saw the beginning of a radical reassessment of attitudes and values in Australia, much of it did not come to fruition until the following decades.
Although extensive, this bibliography is necessarily a work in progress, and it is hoped that readers will advise the National Museum of Australia Library of omissions or deficiencies. All such communications should be addressed to National Museum of Australia Library.
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Compiled by Janine Phillips, National Museum of Australia Library, January 2008
General
Alomes, S, 'Cultural Radicalism in the Sixties', Arena: A Marxist Journal of Criticism and Discussion (62), 1983, pp.28-54.
Australia in the 1960s, (Adelaide ; New York: Rigby, 1980), 152 pp.[NMA 994.05 AUS].
'Barry Humphries' Flashbacks', (Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 1999), pp.54-101.
A history of Australia from the 1950's through the 1980's with interjections by Sir Les Patterson, and Dame Edna Everidge, supported by archival film.Bolton, GC, '1942-1988 : The Middle Way', '1942-1988 : The Middle Way', The Oxford History of Australia, (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp.88-246.[NMA 994.05 BOL].
Bowman, M and M Grattan, 'Reformers : Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s', 'Reformers : Shaping Australian Society from the 60s to the 80s', (Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1989), pp.14-81.[NMA 361.240922 BOW].
Boyd, R, The Great Great Australian Dream, (Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.: Pergamon Press Australia, 1972), 186 pp.[NMA 994.06 BOY].
Burgmann, V and J Lee, Staining the Wattle, (Fitzroy, Vic.: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988), 308 pp.[NMA 994 STA].
Cameron, E, The Sixties : An Irreverent Guide, (Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004), 333 pp.
With great wit and irony and with no insight whatsoever, popular ABC radio personality Eoin Cameron recalls the people, fashions, films, in fact everything that made the Sixties such a fabulous decade.Cockington, J, Mondo Weirdo : Australia in the Sixties, (Port Melbourne : Mandarin, 1992), 355 pp.
Encel, S, Equality and Authority : A Study of Class, Status and Power in Australia, (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1970), 492 pp.[NMA 301.44 ENC].
Horne, D, 'The Australian People : Biography of a Nation', 'The Australian People : Biography of a Nation', (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1972), pp.230-261.[NMA 994.04 HOR].
Time of Hope : Australia 1966-72, (London ; Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980), 186 pp.[NMA 994.061 HOR].
The Lucky Country, (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1998), 256 pp.[NMA 306.0994 HUM].
Hughes, R, 'Australia in the Sixties', Heritage (Australian Heritage Society) v.27 (104), 2003, pp.5-7.
Krantz, L and RA Hobday, Rose Tinted 60s : A Perfect View of the Past, (Sydney, NSW : Hodder Headline, 2004).
McGregor, C, Profile of Australia, (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967), 397 pp.[NMA 994.05 MCG].
McQueen, H, 'Social Sketches of Australia',3rd edn, (St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2004), pp.215-260.[NMA 994.042 MCQ].
O'Hanlon, S and T Luckins, Go Melbourne : Melbourne in the Sixties, (Beaconsfield, Vic. : Circa, 2005), 284 pp.
Ross, J, Chronicle of Australia, (Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin, 2000), 822 pp.
Serle, G, 'Some Stirrers and Shakers of the 1950s and 1960s. The Inaugural Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture (1992: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne ), Overland (128), 1992, pp.16-21.
Politics and Government
Clark, J, 'Hunting for the New Left in the National Library', National Library of Australia News v.14 (4), Nov 2004, pp.16-18.
Frame, TR, The Life and Death of Harold Holt, (Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2005), 372 pp.[NMA 994.0622].
Griffiths, ARG, 'Contemporary Australia', 'Contemporary Australia', (London: Croom Helm, 1977), pp.73-103.[NMA 320.994 GRI].
'Beautiful Lies : Australia from Menzies to Howard', 'Beautiful Lies : Australia from Menzies to Howard', Rev. edn, (Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2005), pp.78-124.[NMA 994.04 GRI].
Hancock, I, John Gorton : He did it His Way, (Sydney: Hodder, 2002), 446 pp.[NMA 324.29405092 HAN].
Henderson, P, 'Frank Browne and the Neo-Nazis', Labour History v.89 Nov 2005, pp.73-86.
Frank Browne was a leading right-wing activist in post-war Australia. This article looks at the formation of the first Neo-Nazi group in 1959, and the careers of other prominent neo-Nazis in Australia in the 1960s.Henderson, G, R Menzies and R Menzies, Menzies' Child : The Liberal Party of Australia, 1944-1994, (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1994), 382 pp.[NMA 324.29405 HEN].
Jupp, J, Party Politics, Australia 1966-1981, (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1982), 232 pp.[NMA 324.29419 JUP].
Killen, J, Killen : Inside Australian Politics, (North Ryde N.S.W.: Methuen Hayes, 1985), pp.39-181.[NMA 994.060924 KIL].
Martin, AW and P Hardy, Robert Menzies : A Life, (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1996)[NMA 994.04209221].
Mendes, P, The New Left, the Jews and the Vietnam War, 1965-1972, (North Caulfield, Vic.: Lazare, 1993), 236 pp.
Nichols, D, ''Boiling in Anger': Activist Local Newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s', History Australia v.2 (2), 2005, pp.41/1- 41/16.
Reid, A, The Power Struggle, (Sydney: Tartan Press, 1972), 195 pp.[NMA 324.294 REI].
Indigenous Issues
The 1967 Referendum: A Selection of the Material Held at the National Film and Sound Archive http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/docs/collectionguide_1967referendum.pdf [ accessed Jan 2008].
Attwood, B and A Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights : A Documentary History, (St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 375 pp.
Attwood, B and others, The 1967 Referendum , Or, when Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote, (Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997), 155 pp.
Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 25 Years on : Marking the Anniversary of the Aboriginal Referendum of 27 may 1967, ([Canberra] : The Commission, 1992), 20 pp.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Yes! the 1967 Referendum http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/Referendum/index.html [ accessed Jan 2008].
Behrendt, L, 'The Power we Bring: Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Treaty Process', Balayi v.5 (2002), 2002, pp.1-9. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200402742>.
Bennett, S, 'Indigenous Voting Rights in Australia', Australasian Parliamentary Review v.16 (1), Autumn 2001, pp.16-20. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200302778>.
Chesterman, J, 'Defending Australia's Reputation: How Indigenous Australians Won Civil Rights [Series of Two Parts]: Part 1', Australian Historical Studies v.32 (116), 2001, pp.20-39. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200110289>.
Chesterman, J, 'Taking Civil Rights Seriously', Australian Journal of Politics and History v.46 (4), 2000, pp.497-509. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200105710>.
Clark, J, ''Vote Yes for Aborigines' [some of the Intricacies of the 1967 Referendum.]', National Library of Australia News v.16 (5), Feb 2006, pp.11-14. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200601438; http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2006/feb06/article3.html> [accessed Nov 2006].
Dennison , Anthony John, D Fletcher and Australian National Maritime Museum, [Interview with Anthony Dennison regarding the Moree Baths Freedom Rides], [Interview with Anthony Dennison regarding the Moree Baths Freedom Rides], ([Canberra]: Australian National Maritime Museum, 2000
Interview with Tony Dennison , member of Moree Council. He talks about his childhood on the aboriginal mission in Moree and the 1965 Freedom rides led by Charles Perkins which led to the local swimming pool being open to aborigines. He discusses his childhood and memories of the freedom rides; the 35th anniversary celebrations and his political aspirations.Goodall, H, 'Invasion to Embassy : Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972', 'Invasion to Embassy : Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972', (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin in association with Black Books, 1996), pp.261-360.[NMA 333.20899915 GOO]
Invasion to Embassy challenges the conventional view of Aboriginal politics to process a bold new account of Aboriginal responses to invasion and dispossession in New South Wales. At the core of these responses has been land: as a concrete goal, but also as a rallying cry, a call for justice and a focal point for identity. This rich story is told through the words and memories of many of the key activists who were involved in the struggles on the lands and in the towns of NSW. By exploring interactions between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people over land, this book enables us to understand our history through the reality of the conflicts, tensions, negotiations and cooperation which make up our experience of colonialism. Invasion to Embassy is unique in presenting NSW Aboriginal history as a history of activism, rather than a saga of passivity and victimisation. In telling this engrossing story, Heather Goodall reveals much about white Australians - not only as oppressors, but as allies and as newcomers who must in turn sort out their relations to the land.lgo Oth.Hardy, F, The Unlucky Australians, (Adelaide: Rigby, 1976)[NMA 331.69991509429 HAR].
Blood Brothers 1993 Complete Series, Lander, N and others, Government of South Australia, Dept. of Education and Children's Services, 2007
A four-part series that documents and dramatises important indigenous stories. The anthology reveals Aboriginal Australia through oppression, resistance and survival of the Aboriginal race. Broken English examines the case of Rupert Max Stuart, who served a 15 year senence for a crime he says he didn't commit. Recreates some of the events of his trial and the subsequent Royal Commission -- Freedom ride focuses on outspoken activist Charles Perkins, the first Aborigine to graduate from University, and leader of the 1965 freedom rides which challenged apartheid in N.S.W. -- From little things, big things grow focuses on Kev Carmody, a musician and songwriter -- Jardiwarnp, a Warlpiri fire ceremony focuses on the traditional ritual of Jardiwarnpa in Central Australia.National Archives of Australia, Fact Sheet 150 - the 1967 Referendum http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs150.aspx [ accessed Jan. 2008].
National Archives of Australia, Fact Sheet 224 - Wave Hill 'Walk-Off' http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs224.aspx [ accessed Jan. 2008].
National Museum of Australia, Collaborating for Indigenous Rights: 1967 Referendum
27 May 1967 is the date of the most successful referendum in Australian history. Forty years ago the overwhelming majority of Australians voted for changes in the Australian Constitution that the voters believed would give Indigenous Australians a ‘fairer go’ in their own country.
This website tells the story of that referendum. http://www.nma.gov.au/indigenousrights/ [ accessed Jan. 2008].Discrimination and Segregation, Perkins , C and University of New South Wales. Audio-Visual Unit, Audio Visual Unit, University of New South Wales, 1989
Describes some of the situations of Aboriginal people in the early 60s, including the "freedom rides" which acted as a catalyst for further political activity, and influenced the referendum of 1967 and the subsequent repeal of discriminatory legislation.Rose, DB, Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations, (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1991), 268 pp.
Contact history of Victoria River Downs, Wave Hill and Humbert River Stations based on Aboriginal oral accounts; brief outline of Prehistory, traditional culture and territorial groupings (Ngarinman, Mudbura, Bilinara, Ngaliwurru, Karangpurru, Wardaman, Gurindji, Malngin); Captain Cook mythology and the contradictions of the early settlement; case studies of killings examined; role of police and police trackers; destruction of the Karangpurru and Nyiwanawu; Humbert River Mudbura Aboriginal Reserve; Aboriginal perception of social justice; wages and unionism; Vesteys and Borril labour and production management; effects of Welfare policies; station violence, interpersonal relations and sexual conflict; accounts of working lives on stations; demographic estimates; impact of the Wave Hill strike (1966); the Gibb Committee; establishment of Daguragu, Yarralin, Lingara, and Pigeon Hole communities; Stokes Range, Timber Creek, Kidman Springs - Jasper Gorge, Bilinara land claims.Rowley, CD, The Remote Aborigines, (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1971), 379 pp.[NMA 305.89915 ROW].
Freedom Ride, Scott, J and others, Australian Film Finance Corporation and City Pictures, 1993
Traces the life of Charles Perkins and his involvement in the early Aboriginal rights movement activities in the 1960's. Focuses on the movement's activities especially in the small N.S.W towns, Walgett and Moree, and interviews people who were involved. Shows historical footage of the events.Southern Cross University Indigenous Events Coordinating Committee., The 1967 Referendum : Reflections and Perspectives, a Critical Reader, ([Lismore, N.S.W.]: SCUIECC, 2007), 32 pp.
Tripcony, P, 'The Commonwealth Referendum of 1967: Australian Indigenous Citizenship: An Interpretation of Historical Events.', Australian History Teacher (24), 1997, pp.39-47.
The author discusses findings from a study of the literature on Australian indigenous citizenship, taking a look at the definitions of citizenship, the 1967 Commonwealth referendum and the events surrounding it.
Vietnam War
Crowe, A, The Battle After the War : The Story of Australia's Vietnam Veterans, (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 210 pp.[NMA DS559.73.A8 C76 1999; 959.704339421].
Faggotter, J, Australia , Don't Forget about Us : The Vietnam War : True Stories by Ex-Servicemen, that did a Tour of Duty in the Vietnam War, and how the War Affected them Once they Returned Home, (Yeppoon, Qld.: J. Faggotter, 2005), 93 pp.[NMA 959.7043394 AUS].
Ham , P, Vietnam : The Australian War, (Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2007), 814 pp.[NMA 959.7043394 AUS].
Hamilton, P and K Darian-Smith, 'Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia', 'Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia', (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp.113-134.[NMA 994.0072 MEM].
Langley, G, A Decade of Dissent : Vietnam and the Conflict on the Australian Homefront, (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), 232 pp.[NMA 959.704310994 LAN].
Lunn, H, Vietnam , a Reporter's War, (St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1985), 259 pp.[NMA 959.7043 LUN].
McDonald, D, 'Remembering and Forgetting: The Vietnam War and Historiography.', Agora v.41 (4), 2006, pp.35-41. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText> [accessed January 2008].
McHugh, S, Minefields and Miniskirts : Australian Women and the Vietnam War, (Sydney: Doubleday, 1993), 295 pp.[NMA 959.70431082 MCH].
McKay, G, Going Back : Australian Veterans Return to Viet Nam, (Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007), 222 pp.
Moore, P and T Pleace, Vietnam Lives : Works by Australian Vietnam Veterans from the Sixties to the Eighties, (Sydney: Vietnam Veteran's Association, 1984).
Payne, T, War and Words : The Australian Press and the Vietnam War, (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing, 2007), 340 pp. <http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/>[NMA 070.4499597043 PAY].
Pierce, P, J Doyle and J Grey, Vietnam Days : Australia and the Impact of Vietnam, (Ringwood, Vic. ; New York: Penguin Books, 1991), 323 pp.
Saunders, MJ, 'The Trade Unions in Australia and Opposition to Vietnam and Conscription: 1965-73', Labour History (43), November 1982, pp.64-82.[NMA S 331.0094 LAB].
Women
Burgmann, V, Power and Protest : Movements for Change in Australian Society, (St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 77-137 pp.[NMA 303.484 BUR].
Goodall, H, ''Assimilation Begins in the Home': The State and Aboriginal Women's Work as Mothers in New South Wales, 1900s to 1960s', Labour History v.69 Nov 1995, pp.75-101.
James, M, M Bevege and C Shute, Worth Her Salt : Women at Work in Australia, (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982), 330-357 pp.[NMA 331.40994 WOR].
Jerrard, MA, 'A Surprising Struggle?: The AMIEU (Qld) and the Fight for Equal Wages in the Meat Processing and Export Industry in the 1950s and 1960s', Labour History v.77 Nov 1999, pp.140-159.
Lake, M, Getting Equal : The History of Australian Feminism, (St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 214-230 pp.[NMA 305.420994 LAK].
Mackinnon, A, 'A Study Corner in the Kitchen' Australian Graduate Women Negotiate Family, Nation and Work in the 1950s and Early 1960s', Australian Historical Studies v.37 (127), 2006, pp.63-80.
For Love Or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia, Megan McMurchy and Jeni Thornley, Flashback Films, 1983
Tells the story of women's working lives throughout Australia's history. Juxtaposes clips from feature films, home movies, newsreels and documentaries with radio shows, diaries, popular songs, letters and interviews. Explores the challenges that face women in the nuclear age.O'Hanlon, S and T Luckins, Go Melbourne : Melbourne in the Sixties, (Beaconsfield, Vic.: Circa, 2005), 137-147 pp.
Porter, M, 'A Counterstory of Mothers in the 1950s-1960s', Crossings v.11 (1), 2006.
Reiger, K, Our Bodies, our Babies : The Forgotten Women's Movement, (Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 1-61 pp.[NMA 362.198200994 REI]
For most of the twentieth century, childbirth and the care of mothers and babies in Western countries was controlled by doctors and a hospital system headed by men. In Our Bodies, Our Babies, Kerreen Reiger traces the struggle of Australian women and others to change approaches to childbirth, to claim their right to choices in childbirth, and to educate themselves about birth and breastfeeding. She explores the movement which radically changed our maternity care practices, allowing fathers to participate in the birth of their children and babies to 'room-in' with their mothers. This absorbing story draws on interviews with mothers, midwives and doctors, and on archival material from relevant women's organisations. It shows how the childbirth and breastfeeding movements are relevant to feminism and women's rights. Much has been achieved, but Reiger sees a need for still more political action. Any woman who has given birth, and anyone who has cared for mothers and babies, will want to read this book.
Youth
Bessant, J, ''Hanging Around the Street': Australian Rockers, Sharpies and Skinheads of the 1960s and Early 1970s', Journal of Australian Studies (45), June 1995, pp.15-31. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=951010065> [accessed 22 Jan 2008].
Gerster, R and J Bassett, Seizures of Youth : The Sixties and Australia, (South Yarra, Vic.: Hyland House, 1991), 216 pp.
Howitt, B, My Generation : Growing Up in Australia 1950s to 1980s, (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1992), 159 pp.
Maunders, D, 'Head of a Movement Or Arms of the State? Youth Councils and Youth Policy in Australia, 1941-1991', International Journal of Adolescence and Youth v.2 1996, pp.175-194.
McGregor, C and MP Sharp, People, Politics and Pop : Australians in the Sixties, (Sydney; London: Ure Smith, 1968), 221 pp.
McIntyre, I, Tomorrow is Today : Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970, (Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2006), 216 pp.
Extensively illustrated and featuring year by year accounts of developments in music, fashion and society at large. This is the definitive guide on the evolution of Australian youth culture, during the heady period of the mid to late sixties.Santamaria, BA, '1995: Baby-Boomers' 50th Birthday: How it Began', News Weekly 27 Jan 1996, pp.11-13.
Sinclair, JG and La Trobe University., 'Mass Media and the Dialectics of Social Change: The Melbourne Herald and the Counter-Culture in the Late 'Sixties', 1976), 377 pp.
Townsend , H, The Baby Boomers : Growing Up in Australia in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, (Brookvale, N.S.W.: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 208 pp.[NMA 994.05 TOW].
Welch, D, 'The Wizard of Oz.', Revelation Magazine (12), 1995, pp.12-16.
Interview with Richard Neville about the Hippie movement of the 1960s.York, B, 'Police, Students and Dissent: Melbourne, 1966-1972', Journal of Australian Studies (14), 1984, pp.58-77.[NMA S 994 JOU].
Film, television and radio
Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television and VS Vincent, Report from the Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television, (Canberra: Published for the Govt. of the Commonwealth of Australia by A.J. Arthur, 1963), xxix, 178 pp.
The Senate Select Committee on the Encouragement of Australian Productions for Television, chaired by Senator Victor Vincent presented its report to the Federal Parliament. The report found that during one month of 1961 only 1.06 per cent of programmes broadcast had been Australian drama. It also noted that ‘this country has already demonstrated that it can make world quality films… and the only reason it did not continue to do so is that the industry was left unprotected and squeezed out of business by by an overseas industry’, and ‘the rise and fall of the Australian film industry is a melancholy spectacle for contemplation by Australians’. Although none of the Vincent Report recommendations for the film industry was adopted by the government of the day, it played a significant role in rallying support for a revival of the local industry and many of its broad tenets were later adopted.Australian Film and Sound Archive, [accessedAustralian Radio Series 1930s to 1970s: A Guide to ScreenSound Australia’s Holdings], .
Australian Television History, (Perth, W.A.: Network Books, 2007).
Australian TV : The First 25 Years, (Melbourne: Nelson in association with Cinema Papers, 1981), 192 pp.
Clark, D and S Samuelson, 50 Years : Celebrating a Half-Century of Australian Television, (Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, 2006), 88-127 pp.[NMA 791.40994 CLA].
On Screen: Television and the Sixties, Clark, J and D Beer, v.1 videocassette (VHS)University of New England, 1993.
Doyle, W, 'The Money! Or the Box!: Consumerism, Television and Americanisation in 1960's Australia', Cultures of the Commonwealth (6), 2000, pp.21-33.
Herd, N, Independent Filmmaking in Australia, 1960-1980, (North Ryde, N.S.W.: Australian Film and Televison School, 1983), 68 pp.
The Gyngell Tapes : Bruce Gyngell Interviewed by Julie James Bailey. Program 1., the Early Days of Television in Australia, James Bailey, J, M Sanders and Australian Film and Television School. Resources Unit., [Produced by] Australian Film and Television School Resources, 1984
An interview with Bruce Gyngell in which he discusses the early days of Australian television in the fifties and early sixties when he was program manager at TCN9 (Sydney). He talks about his own early career in television, licence ownership, early programming, Australian content, ratings and the Broadcasting Control Board.Jones, C, Something in the Air : A History of Radio in Australia, (Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press, 1995), 86-99 pp.[NMA 791.440994 JON].
The Australian Newsreel 2: The Cinesound/Movietone Collection, 1930-1968, Liucci, C, N Wilkinson and G Wotherspoon, v.videocassetteBluestone Productions, 1993
Individual items selected from Cinesound and Movietone newsreels and arranged in chronological order by decades from the thirties to the sixties in four compilations on videocassettes. In the main, the items selected are a mixture of 'soft' news items ranging from the trivial to the celebratory which do illustrate the nature of newsreels and reveal something about the society in which they were made. More often than not the newsreel avoided or softened hard news items on political and social issues. As part of a well-established theatrical format in which the values of 'entertainment' were uppermost, the theatrical newsreel contrasts with contemporary television news which actively seeks and presents 'hard' news items, aided immeasurably by the flexibility and portability of video equipment as against the cumbersome cameras and sound recording equipment that was available to the newsreel cameraman.Mac, W, Don't Touch that Dial : Hits n Memories of Australian Radio, (Canberra: WDJM, 2005)[NMA 791.440994 MAC].
Reade, E, History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, (Sydney: Harper & Row, 1979), 149-164 pp.[NMA 791.430994 REA].
Ridley, S, Archives Index : Index to a Guide to Material on Film, Broadcasting and Television, Held in the Australian Archives, Canberra Branch, (North Ryde, N.S.W.: Research and Survey Unit, Australian Film and Television School, 1979).
Shirley, G and B Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, (Australia: Angus & Robertson and Currency Press, 1983), 185-240 pp.[NMA 791.430994 SHI].
Wells, LP, 'Australian Film Censorship in the Sixties', (unpublished B.A. Hons. thesis,University of Sydney, 1966), 24 pp.
Popular Music
Card, A, 'The 'Great Articulation of the Inarticulate': Reading the Jazz Body in Australian and American Popular Culture in the 1960s [Paper in: Everyday Wonders, Nile, Richard (Ed.).]', JAS, Australia's Public Intellectual Forum (58), 1998, pp.18-28. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=990504842>.
Coupe, S, 'Magazine Rebels. -Magazines about Rock Music and Pop Culture in the 1960's and '70's-', Rolling Stone Australia (Sept 1994), 1994, pp.84-85.
Crotty, J, 'Heritage Australia: Interpreting Australian Music History: A Question of Time, Place and Attitudes - the 1960s and the 1990s', Sounds Australian (41), 1994, pp.6-7.
From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to the 1990s, (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), 188 pp.[NMA 306.48099409045 FRO].
Howitt, B, Rock through History : Understanding the Modern World through Rock and Roll 1950s to 1980s, (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989), 276 pp.
Keays, J, His Master's Voice, (St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 222 pp.
National Film and Sound Archive, The First Wave: Australian Rock & Pop Recordings, 1955-1963
“The First Wave” is a discography of all known recordings which come within the criteria for inclusion, which means rock & pop recordings [ie. those aimed primarily at a “teen” market] made in Australia or by Australians overseas between 1955 and 1963. The cut-off date and the title are indicitive of a focus on the pre-Beatles period of popular music. Over 2000 recordings from the early years of Australian popular music are documented, and those items held by the National Film & Sound Archive are marked so as to facilitate access to this material. Where possible, entries include details such as composer credits which have not previously been available. Also included are details of television and newsreel footage held by the Archive which relate to this subject. This includes episodes of “Six O’Clock Rock”, “The Johnny O’Keefe Show”, and other programmes aimed at the “teen” market during the period covered by the discography. There are indexes of all tune titles and artists. http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/docs/collectionguide_thefirstwave1955-1963.pdf .National Film and Sound Archive,The Sixties: Australian Rock & Pop Recordings, 1964-1969 http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/docs/collectionguide_thesixties1964-1969.pdf .
Raynes, N, 'As I Recall...: The Sydney 'Folk' Scene in the Mid to Late Sixties', Trad and Now (21), 2007, pp.22-26.
Spencer, C, P McHenry and Z Nowara, Australian Bands of the Sixties, (Golden Square, Vic.: Moonlight Publications, 2000), v. 3 pp.
The Throb, the Atlantics, the Missing Links, the Elois, the Creatures, the in-Sect, (Golden Square [Vic.]: Moonlight Publishing, 1999), 37 pp.
Walker, C, 'Co-Dependent: A Potted History of Drugs and Australian Music. [the Cross-Currents of Creative and Destructive Impulses in Rock Culture since the 1960s.]', Meanjin (Melbourne) v.61 (2), 2002, pp.154-166. <http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;res=APAFT;dn=200205136>.
Zion, L, 'The Pop Music Scene in Australia in the 1960s', (unpublished Ph.D thesis,Monash University, 1988), 451 leaves pp.
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