<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear all, </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br>[apologies for cross posting]<div><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">For many years, the back catalogue of </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">Perfect Beat: The Asia-Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"> was only available in print form. We are pleased to announce that most of the old issues -- starting with the first publication in July 1992 -- are now digitised and can be accessed via the journal's website. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Go to </span><a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/archive" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/archive</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> to search the archives. Further issues will be added. My thanks to the former editors, Mark Evans and Denis Crowdy, for making this happen! (Full article access requires a subscription to EBSCO, ProQuest or another database; book reviews are free to view). </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You will find a wealth of articles about contemporary/popular music in the Asia-Pacific region, for example:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Bruce Johnson "AUSTRALIAN JAZZ IN POST-WAR EUROPE: A case study in musical displacement" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2275" target="_blank">Vol 2, No 3 (1995)</a><br>Deirdre Marshall-Dean "CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONS An Overview of Musical Change on the Yap islands of Micronesia" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2267" target="_blank">Vol 2, No 4 (1996)</a><br>Geoff Stahl "CITING THE SOUND: New Zealand lndie Rock in North America" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2264" target="_blank">Vol 3, No 2 (1997)</a><br>Toru Mitsui "DOMESTIC EXOTICISM: A recent trend in Japanese popular music" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2262" target="_blank">Vol 3, No 4 (1998)</a><br>Yoko Kurokawa "HULA HALAU IN TOKYO: A Case Study of Hula Schools" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2259" target="_blank">Vol 4, No 4 (2000)</a><br>Nabeel Zuberi "SOUNDS LIKE US: Popular Music and Cultural Nationalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand" <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB/issue/view/2258" target="_blank">Vol 8, No 3 (2007)</a></blockquote><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">best wishes</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Shelley</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Dr Shelley Brunt</b></span> <br></span></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Senior Lecturer in Music and Media</span></span> | </span></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">RMIT University</span></span><br>Incoming Editor 2015 | <a href="https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PB" target="_blank"><i>Perfect Beat </i></a>Journal<br>'Emergent Media Practices' Node Leader | <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.digital-ethnography.net/" target="_blank">Digital Ethnography Research Centre </a></span><br><br></span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Mail: </span><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, <br>GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001 AUSTRALIA<br>Tel: +61 3 9925 3789 | Fax: +61 3 9925 3809 </span></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">| </span></span></span></span></span></span></font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:small">CIRCOS provider code: 00122A</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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