Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 03 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Critiquing music can be fraught: whether it was Miles Davis or Elvis Costello who said it first, ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’. Our first event on the art of music criticism focuses on popular music.
From street presses to mainstream broadcasting, what does it mean to critically engage with music in Australia, and are we doing it well?
Featuring
Clem Bastow
Clem Bastow's debut nonfiction book Late Bloomer was published in July 2021. Her writing appears regularly in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Big Issue. She co-wrote ...
Mikey Cahill
Mikey Cahill writes the Rock City column for News Ltd.
He reviews and writes about music for Hit, jmag and Inpress. He has just been added as a Judge for the Australian Music Prize 2010.
Lawrie Zion
Lawrie Zion is a senior lecturer in La Trobe University’s journalism.
In the 1980s Lawrie Zion wrote his PhD at Monash University examining the pop music scene in Australia during the 1960s and played piano in bars. For much of the last two decades he has worked in the media, including a nine-year stint at ABC radio, where he was based at Triple J.
He has worked as a writer, researcher and interviewer for ABC TV documentary series Long Way To The Top and Love Is In The Air. In 2006, he worked on the Crowded House Farewell to the World DVD, hosting the commentary track and conducting interviews. More recently he wrote and researched his own documentary about the Australian accent called The Sounds of Aus, which was presented by John Clarke and screened on ABC TV.
Lawrie Zion is the coordinator of La Trobe University’s Journalism program, and editor-in-chief of the program’s website for emerging journalists, upstart.