No fixed address, but currently in East Berlin: The Australian bicentennial, Indigenous protest and the Festival of Political Song in 1988

Hurley, AW

No fixed address, but currently in East Berlin: The Australian bicentennial, Indigenous protest and the Festival of Political Song in 1988

Hurley, AW

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Citation:: Perfect Beat, 2014, 15 (2), pp. 129 - 148
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hurley, AW https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6717-3537	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:04:05Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Perfect Beat, 2014, 15 (2), pp. 129 - 148	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1038-2909	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37080
dc.description.abstract	© 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd. In his work on multidirectional memory, Michael Rothberg makes the point that '[a]lthough it is difficult to grasp today⋯communism provided one of the discursive spheres⋯in which the articulation of genocide and colonialism could first be attempted'. In this article, I explore the Australian Indigenous reggae-rock band No Fixed Address's performance, just after Australia Day 1988 at the East German Festival of Political Song, one of the surprisingly many venues where the East German state granted space for the articulation of genocide and colonialism and their legacies in the Australian context. On its face, this site offered a signal transnational location for Indigenous protest during the bicentennial year. However, I will demonstrate that the articulation of protest was undermined and skewed by partly competing and partly symbiotic intentions on the part of the East German and the Australian states. In this ambiguous context, musical protest unfolded in complex and sometimes unintended ways.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Perfect Beat	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1558/prbt.v15i2.26718	en_US
dc.title	No fixed address, but currently in East Berlin: The Australian bicentennial, Indigenous protest and the Festival of Political Song in 1988	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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Abstract:

© 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd. In his work on multidirectional memory, Michael Rothberg makes the point that '[a]lthough it is difficult to grasp today⋯communism provided one of the discursive spheres⋯in which the articulation of genocide and colonialism could first be attempted'. In this article, I explore the Australian Indigenous reggae-rock band No Fixed Address's performance, just after Australia Day 1988 at the East German Festival of Political Song, one of the surprisingly many venues where the East German state granted space for the articulation of genocide and colonialism and their legacies in the Australian context. On its face, this site offered a signal transnational location for Indigenous protest during the bicentennial year. However, I will demonstrate that the articulation of protest was undermined and skewed by partly competing and partly symbiotic intentions on the part of the East German and the Australian states. In this ambiguous context, musical protest unfolded in complex and sometimes unintended ways.

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