Australia’s Dance Culture
February 22nd, 2006
All talk of melbourne shuffling aside, this is an informative article about the emergence of dance culture in the land down under.
Australia’s dance culture has arrived along quite different lines to previous Australian music movements. Although dance culture has been compared with the punk movement through their common element grass-roots expressions of culture, in Australia, punk tended to be an “invasion” of culture from abroad. Australia’s dance culture is certainly “derivative” as it evolved from and relied on changes occurring overseas, however the movement is part of a global network that feeds off itself.
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