Books & arts
14 June 2012
Jock Given gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales
Books & arts
8 May 2012
The most abstract of our arts is also one of the things that defines our humanity
Books & arts
12 April 2012
Andrew Ford reviews a captivating new recording of improvised jazz piano
Books & arts
16 March 2012
What would Leonard Cohen make of the use of “Hallelujah” as a community anthem, asks Andrew Ford
Books & arts
16 February 2012
New Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney albums in a single week? Close enough, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
16 February 2012
Glenn Nicholls reviews Albrecht Dümling’s study of refugee musicians from Nazism who came to Australia
Books & arts
10 February 2012
If you think every combination of instruments has been tried, think again, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
3 February 2012
Darren Tofts reviews a new account of David Bowie’s transformation as the swinging sixties gave way to the glam seventies
Books & arts
8 November 2011
Telling our own stories through the arts is obviously a good thing, writes Andrew Ford, but what does it mean in practice?
Books & arts
22 October 2011
Ageing pop musicians find themselves caught between expectations, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
5 October 2011
Musical notation is both more and less precise than writing and reading words, writes Andrew Ford
Books & arts
12 September 2011
For babies, it’s yes to Bach but no to Mozart, reports Andrew Ford
Books & arts
10 August 2011
Increasingly people are watching rather than simply listening to recorded music, writes Andrew Ford
From the archive
13 July 2011
Does a good cause make good art?
Books & arts
6 June 2011
MUSIC | Andrew Ford explores the darkness at the junction of pop music and other genres
Books & arts
10 May 2011
It was 1958, the year Brazil won the World Cup. National pride was at its zenith, writes Andrew Ford, and you can hear it in the music
Books & arts
15 March 2011
How do you compose for a brass band? Andrew Ford went to Yorkshire to find out
Essays & reportage
20 January 2011
Robert Milliken recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture
Books & arts
13 December 2010
Andrew Ford reviews Stephen Sondheim’s autobiographical masterclass in lyric-writing
National affairs
29 July 2010
Culture and the arts have not featured prominently in this year’s election campaign. That’s a shame, writes Ben Eltham, because we badly need to debate…
Books & arts
15 July 2010
When it comes to the prices they pay for copyrighted music, Australian consumers are being stung everywhere from the gym to the pub, writes Ben Eltham
Essays & reportage
11 February 2010
Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their…
International
6 July 2009
A pyrrhic victory for the American recording industry shows that fast broadband and new applications demand a rethink of the law, writes Julian Thomas
Books & arts
2 April 2009
The sources of Andrew Ford’s compositions are as varied as his guests each Saturday on The Music Show, writes Gordon Kerry in this extract from his new book
Books & arts
5 February 2009
Like his trio music, Keith Jarrett’s solo concerts draw on enduring music forms, writes Andrew Ford