Country Music Comes to Australia: An American Art Form and Its Evolution in the Land Down Under

In Country Music Comes to Australia, Andrew K. Smith charts the development of Australian country music from its genesis in the mid-1800s through the early 1950s. Documenting the origins and development of the genre and its various influences, including Australian indigenous music traditions, European immigration to Australia, and the Big Bang of American country music, Smith’s study spans a long and complex history of Australian country music once thought to be only a small piece of the na...