Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"

An examination of the copyright history of Australia’s unofficial national anthem, ‘Waltzing Matilda', provides an insight into the political, economic and cultural relations between Britain, the United States of America and Australia. In particular, the extent to which Australia’s cultural ind...

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Main Author: Seal, Graham
Format: Journal Article
Published: common Ground 2013
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Online Access:http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.505
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28405
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description An examination of the copyright history of Australia’s unofficial national anthem, ‘Waltzing Matilda', provides an insight into the political, economic and cultural relations between Britain, the United States of America and Australia. In particular, the extent to which Australia’s cultural industries are a surrogate or proxy for the larger interests of global powers is demonstrated. It is argued that this surrogacy has, and continues to have, a potentially constricting effect on the circulation of matters of cultural concern through the Australian national community.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-284052017-01-30T13:04:51Z Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda" Seal, Graham Waltzing Matilda Surrogacy Book publishing History Copyright Thomas Wood Intellectual property Cultural Industries An examination of the copyright history of Australia’s unofficial national anthem, ‘Waltzing Matilda', provides an insight into the political, economic and cultural relations between Britain, the United States of America and Australia. In particular, the extent to which Australia’s cultural industries are a surrogate or proxy for the larger interests of global powers is demonstrated. It is argued that this surrogacy has, and continues to have, a potentially constricting effect on the circulation of matters of cultural concern through the Australian national community. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28405 http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.505 common Ground fulltext
spellingShingle Waltzing Matilda
Surrogacy
Book publishing History
Copyright
Thomas Wood
Intellectual property
Cultural Industries
Seal, Graham
Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title_full Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title_fullStr Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title_full_unstemmed Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title_short Going for a Song: The Cultural Politics of "Waltzing Matilda"
title_sort going for a song: the cultural politics of "waltzing matilda"
topic Waltzing Matilda
Surrogacy
Book publishing History
Copyright
Thomas Wood
Intellectual property
Cultural Industries
url http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.505
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28405