This article examines cultural industries in Broken Hill - the iconic 'Silver City' of Australian mining in far western NSW - and comes from research funded by arts and regional development agencies during 2006 and 2007. In interviewing and surveying the 'movers and makers' of the local cultural...

An otherwise little-known country town has become a 'capital' for one creative scene - jazz. The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz plays a significant role in both nourishing the local community and Australian jazz music. The festival creates a unique space for performance, listening and interaction...

This book discusses the niche of music tourism. Chapter 1 provides an historical background to music tourism, with particular reference to the better-documented European context and to classical traditions. Chapter 2 looks at the manner in which music created virtual tourism, before recreational...

This article examines remoteness and proximity as geographical conditions and metaphors. It stems from a large government-funded research project which sought to examine the extent and uniqueness of the creative industries in Darwin - a small but important city in Australia's tropical Top End...

This paper discusses the creative and contemporary performances of young Indigenous hip-hoppers in two seemingly disparate places (Nowra, NSW, and Torres Strait Islands, QLD). Visiting two Indigenous hip-hop groups from these places - and drawing on interviews and participant observation - we...

This paper explores how musical performance and expression catalyse rural cultural resourcefulness amidst uncertainty and change. We describe and then challenge conceptions of rural vulnerability and resilience amidst substantial social, environmental and economic change. Rural populations are...

This article discusses the complex links between tourism, music and place. Music tourism is a rapidly expanding and diverse tourist niche, although rarely acknowledged by geographers or tourism scholars. The article discusses historical precedents, before sketching a typology of contemporary...

This special issue is dedicated to further exploring the creative industries outside major cities (in Australia) - in places that are physically and/or metaphorically remote, are small in population terms, or which because of socio-economic status or inherited industrial legacies are assumed by...

Event management research increasingly recognizes place embeddedness as critical to success. Less well understood is the significance of the festivals and events sector in places suffering from environmental crises. A major empirical survey of 480 festivals in rural Australia, conducted in 2008 at...

The role of networks and their contribution to sustaining and developing creative industries is well documented. This article argues that although networks operate across geographical boundaries, particularly through the use of communication technologies, the majority of studies have focused on the ...