Edited by Philip Hayward and Geoff Walden

This volume complements the first volume in the series by providing case studies of the local development of country music. Individual chapters provide analyses on the early years of Australian country music, the emergence of distinctive Australian performers such as Audrey Auld, Chad Morgan, Sara Storer and John Williamson; the square dancing ‘craze’ of the 1950s and the localisation of the US country songs on Lord Howe Island.

Philip Hayward is professor of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He edited the first volume in this series (Outback and Urban) and has written and edited a number of previous books on popular music.

Geoff Walden is a music teacher at Gympie State High School’s Country Music School of Excellence and is an ititiator of both the CMSOE and the AICM.

The anthology is published by the Australian Institute of Country Music at Gympie as a parallel initiative with its annual Australian Country Music Conferences (inaugurated in 2002).