Australian Music Resources

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Arts Organisations

  • AIATSIS
    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
  • Arts ACT
    Responsible for the ACT Government's policies relating to the arts.
  • Arts Tasmania
    Tasmanian Government's arts funding and policy agency.
  • Arts Victoria
    Provides services and funding for the arts in Victoria.
  • Australia Council
    The Federal Government's principal arts funding and advisory body
  • Australian Film Commission
    The Australian Film Commission (AFC) is the primary development agency for the film industry in Australia. Under its charter the AFC can only invest in Australian creative personnel and projects.
  • Australian Museums Online
    AMOL is a comprehensive Internet site designed to help Australian museums and galleries make information about their collections available to a world-wide audience. It is also the principal gateway to Australian museums for professionals and volunteers working in the museums sector, community users and researchers.
  • Australian Music Centre
    The Australian Music Centre was incorporated in Sydney, Australia, in 1974 to collect and promote the music of Australian composers. The Centre's activities include: a research and lending library; a retail outlet and direct marketing service; book, magazine and CD publication educational books, kits and brochures.
  • Australia's Cultural and Recreation Network
    Australia's Cultural and Recreation Network provides access to Australian arts, music, literature, theatre, history, heritage, festivals, new media, film, dance and sport. It is is the online gateway to Australian cultural organisations, websites, resources, events and news and is an initiative of the Commonwealth Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts.
  • The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA)
    Provides policy advice and support to the Australian Government for a wide range of areas including multimedia, orchestras, broadcasting, film and the Internet.
  • The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    Responsible for the Australian Government's international relations, trade and development assistance programs through our headquarters in Canberra and Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates around the world.
  • National Archives of Australia
    The Archives of Australia website is a starting point for exploring many Australian archive-related sites and resources. It also contains links to international archival organisations. Includes collection databases, exhibitions, research guides and photo search.
  • National Film and Sound Archive (ScreenSound Australia)
    Exhibitions, screenings, and databases.

  • NSW Arts
    Provides services and funding for the arts in New South Wales.
  • Performing Arts Museum
    Supported by Arts Victoria, the Performing Arts Museum celebrates Australia's performing arts history and traditions.

  • Playing Australia
    Playing Australia gives all Australians better access to some of the country's best performing arts from ballet to indigenous dance, jazz to classical music and Shakespeare to bilingual theatre. The program provides Federal Government grants to companies, producers, venues, presenters and tour organisers.

Scholarships and Grants

Agents & Promoters of Australian Music

  • Arts OutWest
    Arts OutWest is an independent Regional Community Cultural Development organisation in rural Australia in the area of New South Wales known as the Central West. Arts OutWest assists the development and promotion of all art-forms in a population of about 232,000 in an area of 67,684 sq.kms. and is funded by the (16) Local Government areas of: Bathurst, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Dubbo, Evans, Forbes, Greater Lithgow, Lachlan, Mudgee, Oberon, Orange, Parkes, Rylstone, Weddin, and Wellington; and the New South Wales Government Ministry for the Arts.
  • AustralAsian Music Industry Directory
    The most current, correct and comprehensive directory, updated online every week for over 8000 listings in 20 Asia Pacific music markets. To access the latest correct companies, people,addresses,and numbers (including links to URLs and email addresses), you must subscribe for a small fee.
  • Australian Music World Wide Web Site
    A series of links and pages that exist as a tribute to Australian music. A useful reference of discographies, biographies, links and news for many Australian artists.
  • Musica Viva Australia
    Musica Viva Australia presents around 2,500 concerts each year across Australia and around the world.
  • Playing Australia
    Playing Australia gives Australians better access to some of the country's best performing arts. From ballet to indigenous dance, jazz to classical music and Shakespeare to bilingual theatre - Playing Australia has been assisting the touring of performing arts across Australia since 1992. The program provides Commonwealth Government grants to companies, producers, venues, presenters and tour organisers to tour performing arts across State and Territory Boundaries where this is currently not commercially viable and there is demonstrated public demand.
  • Songlines Music Aboriginal Corporation
    Songlines in Victoria is an Incorporated Aboriginal Association that has been established to provide assistance in all aspects of the music and performing arts industry to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians performers, managers and technicians.

Articles/books (full text)

Australian Music Sites

  • Aboriginal Studies
    Edited by Matthew Ciolek, this site provides links to electronic information on Australian Aboriginal studies including art, culture and music.
  • ArtsDomain on Vicnet
    Includes Music, Opera, Arts Organisations and Theatre.
  • Australasian Computer Music Association
    acma-l is a listserv discussion group hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand) for the Australasian Computer Music Association . It acts as a forum for discussion amongst electroacoustic composers in Australia and beyond.
  • Australian Folk Music
    A directory of Web sites about Australian folk music. Includes section with words and music for over 100 Australian folk songs.
  • IMMEDIA!
    Media and entertainment company. Provides an Internet directory of the Australian music industry. IMMEDIA also publishes the Australian Music Industry trade magazine
  • Music of the 14th Century
    Databases relating to repertoire, manuscripts and composers. Compiled by John Stinson.
  • Victorian Jazz Club
  • Women in Contemporary Music
    Web site from Southern Cross University about women in contemporary music. Includes links to other sites with information on women in music, performing arts, media and culture.
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