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STYLE v GENRE
There has been a musical cold war happening for decades with GENRE v STYLE – and STYLE is winning. Is this the end of the Australian country music genre Continue reading STYLE v GENRE
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Happy Easter 2018
Give a thought for the billions of hungry people around the world this Easter: Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. Continue reading Happy Easter 2018
4Corners ABC 2nd April 2017 – The One Nation Exposé
One Nation Exposed as a business not a political party Continue reading 4Corners ABC 2nd April 2017 – The One Nation Exposé
Legalise it!
Attitudes to many things are cemented early in adolescence by the cognitive and social biases of first the parents and then the ‘system’. Continue reading Legalise it!
The Rise of Popular Culture – Depression to Delirium (Country music’s influence on music history)
Introduction The momentous changes in popular culture from 1945 can’t be written about until a little history of the previous 15 years is discussed. There were enormous political, social, economic and geographical upheavals in the world during the first decades of the 20th century. As a result, popular culture in post-war America simply exploded and it was breakthroughs in technology and music that lit the … Continue reading The Rise of Popular Culture – Depression to Delirium (Country music’s influence on music history)
An Ancient Argument
Aristotle v Plato / Rhetoric v Dialectic Introduction This essay will discuss one of the earliest fundamental communication theories from around 350BCE. The theory proposed by Aristotle called ‘Rhetoric’. It will also discuss the ‘Dialectic’ theory of communication as championed by Plato. These Two theories are counterparts in ‘The Art of Discourse’ (Ong 2005). This essay will also acknowledge the links modern communication theories have to … Continue reading An Ancient Argument