Kate Ceberano's Brave by Panizza Allmark

Kate Ceberano's Brave by Panizza Allmark

This exploration of the Australian pop solo debut Brave (1989) by Kate Ceberano identifies the album as a bold feminist foundation for finding voice within Black musical genres against a white Australian cultural landscape.

Australian songstress Kate Ceberano has had an illustrious musical career for over four decades. The success of her solo debut Australian album Brave (1989), with five hit singles and triple platinum sales, was pivotal in launching her career to a mainstream audience. The album provided an Australian voice to funk, dance and jazz with a pop spin. Brave in title and brave in nature, this is a telling of Ceberano’s determination to record an album on her own terms, which is demonstrated to be a postfeminist act of resistance and resilience.

Brave captures a powerful female voice, which also happens to be the voice of an Australian woman of colour. The book examines how Ceberano's voice, evocative of her identity, soulfully breaks through the cultural milieu of the whiteness and male dominance of Australian rock and pop of the 1980s.

Panizza Allmark is Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She is the long standing Senior Editor of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Her research explores issues of representation, including identity, gender, popular culture and urban space.

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ISBN 13	9798765126486
Title	Kate Ceberano's Brave
Author	Panizza Allmark
Series	33 1 3 Oceania
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2027-02-04
Number of pages	160
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