Expression, ethnicity and the Perth nightclub scene of the 1980s
Abstract
During the 1980s Perth in Western Australia had a thriving nightclub scene. This scene was organised according to ethnicity/race and was imbricated with the concerns of official multiculturalism. Using interview material this chapter outlines the diversity of clubs, identifies the most important, and discusses who went to these clubs and the types of music played in them. The primary focus of the chapter is on Jules, the club to which young people thought of as black went. The chapter discusses who was thought of as black in Perth during the 1980s, roughly ten years after the final dismantling of the White Australia policy. The discussion of the Perth nightclub scene serves as a springboard for considering the relationship between everyday multiculturalism and official multiculturalism.
RAS ID
32552
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
2020
School
School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications
Copyright
subscription content
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan / Springer
Recommended Citation
Stratton, J., & Allmark, P. (2020). Expression, ethnicity and the Perth nightclub scene of the 1980s. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5_2
Comments
Stratton, J., & Allmark, P. (2020). Expression, ethnicity and the Perth nightclub scene of the 1980s: Coauthored with Panizza Allmark (Edith Cowan University). In J. Stratton (Ed.), Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia (pp. 41-71). Palgrave Macmillan / Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5_2