Fringe to Famous
Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9798765112472
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 bw illus 700
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Long description:
Fringe to Famous examines exchange between small scenes of cultural production and mainstream institutions and markets.
Drawing on Australian examples in music, streetwear, comedy, screen and digital games, it argues that there has been much greater crossover between the two than is generally recognized.
The book resists a tendency to represent fringe and mainstream as abstract opposites, bringing a focus instead to concrete historical formations. It offers an alternative both to romantic celebrations of a 'pure' fringe - discredited now by half a century of critical responses to the counterculture - and to an increasingly hardened anti-romantic reaction.
Drawing on extensive original interviews, Fringe to Famous offers an overview of transformations in Australian culture since the 1980s, concluding with suggestions for cultural policy 'after the creative industries'. It proposes an idea of 'generative hybridity' between fringe and mainstream that allows us to imagine new possibilities for arts and culture in the 2020s and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: From Art School to Beer Barn
1. Imagining Hybridity: A History of the Present
2. Subverting the High Ground: The Hybridity of Punk and Post-punk Music in Australia
3. Subcultural Design: Wearing our Art on our Sleeve.
4. From Fringe Theatre to Prime Time: The Case of Comedy
5. Alternative Visions: The Indigenous Wave and Australian Independent Cinema
6. The Fringe in Freeplay: The Independence of Independent Games
Conclusion: Designing Osmotic Ecologies
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